Children's own library . ^, it is not easilyovertaken or brought within gun-shot. The Apteryx. This extraordinary bird, whose name woods natural history 169 is derived from the apparent absence of wings, thosemembers being merely rudimentary, inhabits the islandsof New Zealand. It conceals itself among the densestfern, and when hunted by dogs, it hastens to seek arefuge among rocks and in the chambers which it. THE DODO excavates in the earth. This bird has a singular habitof resting with the top of its bill placed on theground. The Dodo. This singular bird, which is now extinct,was discovered
Children's own library . ^, it is not easilyovertaken or brought within gun-shot. The Apteryx. This extraordinary bird, whose name woods natural history 169 is derived from the apparent absence of wings, thosemembers being merely rudimentary, inhabits the islandsof New Zealand. It conceals itself among the densestfern, and when hunted by dogs, it hastens to seek arefuge among rocks and in the chambers which it. THE DODO excavates in the earth. This bird has a singular habitof resting with the top of its bill placed on theground. The Dodo. This singular bird, which is now extinct,was discovered in the Mauritius by the earlier T. Hubert, in the year 1627, writes: — The Dodo, a bird the Dutch call Walghvogle, orDod Eersen; her body is round and fat, which occasions 170 woods natural history the slow pace, or that her corpulencie, and so great asfew of them weigh less than fifty pounds. The representation given by him is that of a globular-shaped bird, perfectly naked, with the exception ofthree separate feathers on the tail, and a few featherson the wing. It is still within the range of possibility that thisbird may again be discovered, as at present but little ofMadagascar has been searched, and in that island, ifanywhere, it will be found. The Great Bustard. The male Bustard possesses amembranous pouch on the fore part of the neck, ca-pable of holding six or seven pints of wate
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