(# THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The wings of the Dodo are fhort, and ufelefs 
for flying. 
The feathers in general are foft, and of a grey 
colour ; thofe of the wings and of the tail are 
- yellow and white. | 
The feathers of the tail are curled like thole of 
the Oftrich, and fland up from the. bottom of the 
7 back: : 
In the ftomach of the Dodo ftones have fre~ | 
quently been found. Some perfons have imagin- 
ed that. they were formed there, but it is much 
more likely that the bird {wallowed them like the” 
Oftrich and Caffowary, and sane of the galli- a 
‘naceous birds, cs 
They are cant in the iflands of Mauritius, be . 
~ the iflands of France and Bourbon, in the i 3 
Ocean. : oe ae 
Sao 
The Solitary Dodo is found in the ifland of | 
Rodrigue. | 
_ It weighs about forty-five sound: the plumage : 
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 separ te and ey eee 
| very beautiful 
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Though 

