. Natural history. Zoology. 246 AVESSUB-ORDER DIDI. on their thighs are round like shells at the end, and being there very thick have an agreeable effect They have two risings on their craws, and the feathers are whiter than the rest, which lively represents the fine neck of a beautiful woman. They walk with so much stateliness and good grace, that one cannot help admiring and loving them ; by whicli means their fine mien often saves their lives. We find in the gizzards of both male and female a brown stone, of the bigness of a hen's egg ; 'tis somewhat rough, flat on one side, and round on tl
. Natural history. Zoology. 246 AVESSUB-ORDER DIDI. on their thighs are round like shells at the end, and being there very thick have an agreeable effect They have two risings on their craws, and the feathers are whiter than the rest, which lively represents the fine neck of a beautiful woman. They walk with so much stateliness and good grace, that one cannot help admiring and loving them ; by whicli means their fine mien often saves their lives. We find in the gizzards of both male and female a brown stone, of the bigness of a hen's egg ; 'tis somewhat rough, flat on one side, and round on tlie other, heavy and hard. We believe that this stone was there when they were hatched, for let them never be so young, you meet with it always. They have never but one of 'em, and besides, the passage from the craw to the gizzard is so narrow, that a like mass of half the bigness cciuld not pass. It served to wliet our knives better than any other stone, ; The dodo lived in Mauritius, and more is known of its appearance than of the solitaire, as several drawings of it were made from life, and now exist in various libraries. A foot. Fi{7. 14.—The Bodo (Didus ineptus). of the bird is in the British Museum, and another is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, along with a head, these being the last relics of an embalmed specimen which was destroyed hy the authorities at Oxford in 1855. Another head of the dodo is in the Museum at Copenhagen, but the actual remains of the body of this wonderful bird are very few, and the species is principally known from the skeletons which have been unearthed during the last few years. The heavy body of the dodo, with its feathery tail, and wings represented by a few plumes only, have led some authorities to consider it as a kind of struthious bird, from the similarity of its wings to those of an ostrich, but recent re- searches have shown that the dodo was a gigantic pigeon. We have now followed the Class Aivs from the Ratita?, thr
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