ORDER VI. STRUTHIOUS. 



GENUS LXVIL— DODO. 



1 Hooded || 2 Solitary || 3 Nazarene 



-O ILL large, bending inwards from the middle of the upper man- 

 dible, marked with two oblique ribs, and much hooked at the end. 



Nostrils placed obliquely near the edge, in the middle of the bill. 



Legs short, thick, feathered a little below the knees : toes, three 

 forward, one backward. 



1— HOODED DODO — Pl. cxxxv. 



Didus ineptus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 662. Lin.'x. 267. Gm.Lin.\. 728. Borowsk. ii. 161. 



t. 25. Nat. Misc. pl. 123. Id. pl. 143. the leg. Id. pl. 166. the head. Johnst. 



Ac. pl.56. f. 5. very bad figure. Tern. Man. Ed.W. Anal. p. cxiv. 

 Cygnus cucullatus, Grew, Mus. p. 60. last parag. Rail, 37. 4. Will. 107. t. 27. 

 Raphus, Bris.v. 15. 7rf.8vo.ii. 214. 



Gallus gallinaceus peregrinus, Clus. Exot. 99. t. 10. Olear. Mus. xxiii. t. 13. f. 5. 

 LeDronte, Bvf. i. 480. Bont.Ind.Or. t. p. 70. 



Dod-eersen, or Valgh-Vogel, Herbert Tr. Ed. 1634. t. p. 212. Id. Ed. 1677. t. p. 382. 

 Dodar from the Island of Mauritius, Mus. Tradesc. p. 4. 

 Hooded Dodo, Gen. Syn. v. p. 1. pl. 70. Id. Sup. ii. 287. Edw. pl.294. Will. Engl. 



153. pl.27. 



THIS uncouth being is rather larger than a Swan, and not far 

 short of three feet in length. The bill pale blue, except the end of 



