. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. bniiic, resenililiii!,^ a rdiiiary Ioh^l,', sfnuij,', ir, that of the uppn' Its gape, huge wide, t!red with soft giw rd wiiig-fcathcrs nV â ^Ii ash cdldiu'; ami eat hers of tlie saiiic loot ; solid, IdUy, :h lirey fii tjic (iiwIiM- llnve or lour I)u,|,is lie old, or not wvll ip for provi-iioii nl ' divers tigurcs aiiil ncy, but swallowoil â tliese fowls arc of not digest ;. IIOlMI âllhhil oilier Irav.'llers, 'h as Legnat and De T'.ry, agree with l^ontius in his descript
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. bniiic, resenililiii!,^ a rdiiiary Ioh^l,', sfnuij,', ir, that of the uppn' Its gape, huge wide, t!red with soft giw rd wiiig-fcathcrs nV â ^Ii ash cdldiu'; ami eat hers of tlie saiiic loot ; solid, IdUy, :h lirey fii tjic (iiwIiM- llnve or lour I)u,|,is lie old, or not wvll ip for provi-iioii nl ' divers tigurcs aiiil ncy, but swallowoil â tliese fowls arc of not digest ;. IIOlMI âllhhil oilier Irav.'llers, 'h as Legnat and De T'.ry, agree with l^ontius in his description of lie hird, and ,n his opinion of the exen, .lilies greatly in his estimation of the value ul the hndu as an ..f loud, hi his book of travels, which is ic .juanitest and to hv fuuiid among sneh literature, he speaks as of " Tin. Dodo, a biid tlie Dutch call Walghvogcl, or Kersen ; her is round and lat, wliirh neeasions the slow ].ace, or that her eorpuleneie, and so great as few of them weigh less than hity iK)uiid : meat it is with s,,me. but better to the ye than stomach siirli as only aslrong appetite can vaii.|uish It is of a melancholy visanv, as sensible "I natures iiijury in liaiiimg ,so massie a body to be directed by comidimental wimrs such, mdccd, as are unable to l,er from the ground, serving only to rank her anionJ 'lids. Her traiiie, three .small , .short and imprnp(,itioiiable," her h-s .suitino t'o Un I-, y, her p,mnces shaipe, her appetite .stnaig and greedy. Stones and ir,,n"are '; wliieji deseiiptioli belter be couceived ill her reiaescutat i'; So pleullbll were the Dodos at one lime, and so easilv were thev killed that the siuleix were 111 the habit of slaying the birds iiierelv lor tlie sake of the stones in th.^ir '["'"â icli-, IJievv JMiug found very etlicacioiis in sharpeiiiug their clasp-knives. The nest of }li'' '"d,
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