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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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is puerile, and all the restare copied from Clusius and Edwards. It seems thatthe species has entirely disappeared, for at the presenttime there is only a foot of it extant in the British Mu-seum, and an ill-preserved head in the Ashraolean Mu-seum at Oxford. The beak appears to be not withoutsome resemblance to that of the Awks, and the footwould resemble that of the Penguins, had it been pal-tnated. [Since this was written, the author personallyexamined these last precious remains of the now extinctDodo, and was not merely satisfied of their validity andtotal generic distinctness, but expressed an opinionthat the foot also preserved at Oxford was specificallydilferent from that in the British Museum.] The second species {D. solitarius) rests on the soletestimony of Leguat {Vot/. i. p. 98), a man who has mis-represented well-known species of animals, as the Hip-popotamus and Manati. The third, or Bird of Nazareth (D. nazarenus), isonly known from the account of Francois Carechi, who
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Kig. 115.—The Dodo. considers it the same as the first species, giving it however but three toes, while all the others allow that bird tohave four. No one has been able to inspect any of these birds since the time of those voyagers. The Aptervx, Shaw,—Appears, of all Birds, to have the wings most completely reduced to simple rudiments. Its generalform is that of a Penguin, and size that of a Goose. The feet also hear some resemblance to those ofthe Penguins, but are not described to be palmated. The beak is very long, slender, marked on eachside with a longitudinal groove, and furnishedwith a membrane at its base : [the nostrils areplaced at the top of the upper mandible be-neath, which passes beyond the under one]AVing reduced to a little stump, terminated by ahook. [Several specimens of this singular bird have recently been received, more particularly in England,and its characters are now tolerably determined. It ^has no relationship whatever with the Penguin group, but there is
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