
-_ THE NATURAL HISTORY : 
Phough this {peciés of ‘the Dodo ‘be in ssc | 
numbers, yet. they are never feen.ins flocks, or 
feldom indeed more than two together. — 
tk hey feek for retired fituations for breeding ; ‘ 
a make their nefts of the leaves of palm trees,. | 
heaped together about a foot and an half above 
the ground ; ; in this neft the female. lays: but one 
egg, which is larger than the egg’ ‘of a eoofe. 
. Whilft the is fitting, orshas' the care’ of Her 
| young, they fuffer no ether bird to mise saa 
nett. : e 
‘Phes egg is feven weeks in Hate hing, so it is 
~ feveral months before the young Solitary Dodotis 
able to.take care of itfel fe The ‘parents never: 
. feparate from one another,” Dg LOG Sti = 
_ yA dtone ts orgie in its: ginzads as. in. ie, 
| Dodo’ S. e ware, 
. The Solitary Dodo never can be tamed; though 
it is not fo wild but that:it will fuffer itfelf to:be - 
taken. » It is faid, that in the woods, though it bé 
not fwift, it efcapes frequently. -from its: purfuers, 
by hiding itfelf, or by fome artifice or ‘other; ‘on the 
plainsit.is foon overtaken. When it is caught fome’ 
people have declared, that it theds: tears, ‘though. 
— It does not make any noife 5 and fometimes es 
will obftinately refule. food, - die ‘of: mont 
‘aud vexation. o 

