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the Chinese for fightings in the manner of Cocks 

 in Europe. 



The Francolin is a beautiful species, ahoiit the 

 size of the common Partridge or rather larger, and 

 elegantly variegated with different colours : it is 

 a native of the Grecian Islands, and is the 

 F. Francolinus of Linnseus. 



Among the Gallinaceous tribe we must by 

 no means omit that most singular bird the DodOy 

 a very large and thick-bodied bird, formerly seen 

 in the island of Bourbon in the Indian seas, as 

 well as in some parts of Africa, but which for 

 nearly two centuries appears to have eluded all 

 the diligence of naturalists to detect. The only 

 authentic original figure of the Dodo is a paint- 

 ing preserved in the British Museum, which is 

 said to have been executed from the living bird, 

 brought into Holland by the Dutch some time 

 after the discovery of the Indies by the way of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. The bird appears 

 to be considerably larger than a Turkey, with 

 very short wings, useless for flight, and with a 

 large head, an extremely large thick bill, and 

 very short, thick legs. A skin of a Dodo was 

 preserved in the Museum of the famous John 



