The Whole Dodo

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The solitary dodo was drawn from a description by one D.B. Dubois in 1674: "These birds are thus named because they always go alone. They are as big as a big goose and have white plumage, black at the extremity of the wings . . ." A chief officer of a ship described it as "a great fowle of the bignesse of a Turkie, very fat, and so short winged, that they cannot fly, being white, and in a manner tame . . . Our men did beat them down with sticks and stones. Ten men may take fowle enough to serve fortie men a day."