. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . orted upon two short, thick legs, like neck, thick and pursy, is joined to a head consistingof two great chaps, which are large, black and prom-inent ; so that the animal, when it gapes, seems to be allmouth. The bill therefore is of an extraordinary length,not flat and broad, but thick, and of a bluish white, sharpat the end, and each chap crooked in opposite directions. * It is affirmed in Loudons lftagnzirie of Natu
. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . orted upon two short, thick legs, like neck, thick and pursy, is joined to a head consistingof two great chaps, which are large, black and prom-inent ; so that the animal, when it gapes, seems to be allmouth. The bill therefore is of an extraordinary length,not flat and broad, but thick, and of a bluish white, sharpat the end, and each chap crooked in opposite directions. * It is affirmed in Loudons lftagnzirie of Natural History,that this bird is now extinct. 108 THE HOODED DODO. All this gives the bird a stupid and voracious physiogno-my, Avhich is rendered still more striking by a borderingof feathers round the root of the beak, which give the ap-pearance of a hood or cowl. The Dodo is furnished withwings, covered with soft ash-coloured feathers, that aretoo short to assist it in flying. It is furnished with a tail,and with a few small curled feathers ; but this tail is dis-proportioned and displaced. Its legs are too short forrunning, and its body too fat to be This bird is a native of the isle of France, and the Dutch,who first discovered it there, called it in their language,the nauseous bird, as well from its disgusting figure asfrom the bad taste of its flesh. Succeeding observers con-tradict this last report, and assert that its flesh is good andwholesome. It is a simple bird and is very easily taken. RUFFED GROUSE. 109 Three or four Dodos are enough for the dinners of a hun-dred men. RUFFED GROUSE.
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