ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
THE GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE DODO AND SOLITAIRE
Dodo Mating
“The Combats between them on this occasion last sometimes pretty long, because the Stranger only turns about, and do's not fly directly from the Nest. However the others do not forsake it till they have quite driven it out of their Limits. After these Birds have raised their young One, and left it to itself, they are always together, which the other Birds are not, and tho' they happen to mingle with other Birds of the same Species, these two Companions never disunite.
We have often remarked that some Days after the young one leaves the Nest, a Company of thirty or fourty brings another young one to it, and the new fledg'd Bird, with its Father and Mother joining with the Band, march to some Bye Place. We frequently followed them, and found that afterwards the old ones went each their own way alone, or in Couples, and left the two young ones together, which is called a Marriage."
The date of the final disappearance of the Solitaire is not known, though it appears to have been living as late as 1729 but in greatly reduced numbers. So early as 1789 its bones were discovered in certain limestone caves and since that date, but principally about 1865, large additional deposits were found consisting altogether of several thousand bones, including a number of complete skeletons; with the result of confirming, so far as the anatomical structure goes, all of Leguat's statements, and making it probable that his account was in the main correct.
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