Thomas Herbert

First, here and here only and in Dygarroys¹, is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rarenesse may Antigonize the Phœnix of Arabia, her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound. are reputed of more for wonder then food, greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensiue and of no nourishment.

Her visage darts forth melancholy, as sensible of Natures injurie, in framing so great a body, to be guided with complementall wings, so small and impotent, that they serue only to proue her Bird.

The halfe of her head is naked, seeming couered with a fine vaile, her bill is crooked downwards, in midst is the thrill, from which part to the end tis of a light greene, mixt with a pale yellow tincture; her eyes are small, and like to Diamonds round and rowling: her clothing downy feathers, her traine three small plumes short and inproportionable, her legs suting to her body, her pounces sharpe, her appetite strong and greedy, Stones and Iron are digested, which description, will better be conceiued in her representation.