

2 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
‘Lhe wings of the Dodo are fhort, and ufelefs 
for flying. : 
The feathers in general are foft, aed ofa grey 
colour ; thofe of the wings and of the tail are. 
yellow eal white. 
‘The feathers of the tail are curled like thofe a 
the Oftrich, and ftand up from the bottom of the — 
back. 
In the ftomach of the Dodo ftones have pe 
quently been found. Some perfons have imagin. 
ed that they were formed there, but it is much 
more likely that the bird fwallowed them like the | 
Oftrich and Caflowary, and many of the galli- 
naceous birds, 
They are fot in the iflands of Mauritius, or. 
the iflands of France and Bourbon, in the Indian © 
Ocean. 
The Solitary Dodo is found in the ifland a, ! 
- Rodrigue. | 
It weighs about forty-five pounds ; the tae 
is generally grey, mixed with brown; in the 
female the colours of the feathers are changeable, _ 
fometimes they fhow more of the brown, and 
fometimes of the ftraw colour, and they appear 
yery beautiful, 
Though 

