Show wingless birds that have been wiped out madagascar in past ages harbored some of the largest wingless birds one being the marco polo mentions a huge bird seen on these islands and called it the roe roc some think that lie he saw one of the last live specimens ot of tills this fearsome although not so tall ns as the won moa being about seven feet in height it laid a gigantic egg clossil fossil remains of which have been found in the bogs there Is one in the british museum over two and a half feet round its long axis asla with a capacity of nearly three gallons gallon sl imagine a bird standing nearly nine feet in height with a head bead as large as that of a horse rind and with a powerful hooked beak beah this was the it must have had the speed of a racehorse tor for its victims were evidently run down and rapidly slaughtered with the powerful mandibles it was found in south america when early explorers visited madagascar they found the dodo and solitaire roaming the plains but the t gun marked the doom of these fine birds which were really huge wingless pigeons A live specimen was brought to tills this country and exhibited in london its stuffed remains may still be seen in oxford london answers |