Dodo, an ungainly bird larger than a turkey, with short scaly legs, a big head and bill, short wings and tail, and a greyish down plumage, now extinct, though it is known to have existed in the Mauritius some 200 years ago.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dodington, George Bubb * Dodo`na