The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 691
AVES—DODO. 683 articulated exteriorly , claws thick and sharp; wings improper for flight. There are only two birds known of this order; the apteryx, a bird inhabiting New Zealand, and the dodo … Swirtness is generally considered as the peculiar attribute of birds; Eut the dodo, instead of exciting that idea by its appearance, seems to strike the imagination as a thing the most unwieldy and inactive of all nature. Its body is massive, almost cubical, and covered with gray feathers ; it is…
Zoology
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