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ORDER VL 
STRUTHIOUS. 
Very great and heavy Bodies. Wings, imperfect; very fmall, 
and ufelefs for flight, but afliftant in running. Flefh coarfe, 
and hard of digeftion. 
Struthious is a new coined word to exprefs this order; for 
thefe birds could not be reduced to any of the Linn^an 
divifions. 
Bill, large, bending inward in 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, fliort, thick, feathered a little below the knees. 
Toes, three forward, one backward. 
Dodo, Edw. CCXCIV. 
Inhabits the ifles of France and Bourbon. 
Didus of 1 -iiNNiEus, and Raphus of Brijfon , V. 14. only I. fpecies. 
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LVII. DODO. 
Bill, 
