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the most remarkable is the cassowary, an Indian R00 m xl 
bird, which some ornithologists place among the natTITist. 
Grallae, others among the Gallinae, and others in 
a particular division distinct from both. 
We must not omit a curious picture, executed 
long ago in Holland, of that extremely rare and 
curious bird the Dodo, belonging to the tribe 
Gallinae, and a native of the island of Bourbon. 
The picture was taken from a living specimen, 
brought into Holland soon after the discovery of 
the passage to the East-Indies by the Cape of 
Good Hope, by the Portuguese. It was once the 
property of Sir Hans Sloane, and afterwards of 
the celebrated ornithologist George Edwards, who 
presented it to the British Museum. 
In this Table are preserved the nests of various table 
birds, amongst the most curious of which are seve- 1. 
ral hanging-nests, chiefly formed by birds of the 
oriole tribe; nests of a small species of Asiatic swal¬ 
low, resembling isinglass in substance, and consi¬ 
dered as a great delicacy by the Chinese, who use 
it in preparing a rich soup called bird-nest soup; 
two nests of a small bird called the taylor-bird, 
composed of leaves sewed together ; bills of various 
rare birds, of which the most remarkable are seve¬ 
ral kinds of rhinoceros-bird’s bills ; quills ; fea¬ 
thers of the great South American vulture called 
the Condor ; a leg of the Dodo, in a glass. 
In 
