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flight, and the hind parts are rounded like a horse's 

 rump, being clothed with feathers, which may be 

 termed coverts. The females are covered with some- 

 times brown and sometimes light yellow feathers, 

 and appear very beautiful : this sex has also a kind 

 of widow's peak above the beak, and the feathers on 

 each side of the breast enlarge into two white tufts : 

 the feathers of the thighs are rounded at the ends, 

 like shells ; and, according to Leguat, the bird has a 

 noble and elegant gait." Latham, 



Sp. 3. Di ? nazarenus. Gmel. Syst, Nat. i. 728. — Lath. Ind, Orru 

 v.ii.j). 663. 



Di? toto corpore tormentoso nig-ro, pedibus tridactylis. 

 Dodo ? with the entire body clothed by a black down, and three 

 toes. 



L'Oiseau de Nazareth. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. i. p. 485. — 



Cauche Madag. p. 130. 

 Nazarene Dodo. Lath. Gen. Syn. v. v. p. 4. 



" Inhabits the Isle of France. This is a large 

 bird, bigger than a Swan : the beak is a little bent 

 downwards, and large : instead of feathers, the whole 

 body is covered over with a black down ; but the 

 wings are feathered, and it has some frizzled ones on 

 the rump, which serves instead of a tail : the legs 

 are long and scaly, and there are three toes on each 

 foot." — Latham. 



The three last-mentioned birds I omitted in my 

 former account of this group for the reasons stated 

 in page 432, vol. ii. ; but as recent observations lead 

 me to suppose that these or similarly constructed 

 birds may have existed, I have furnished my readers 

 with Dr. Latham's description of them, leaving it to 



