Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

The Dinornis-A Bird Without Wings

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

The Dinornis-A Bird Without Wings

vented from escaping. ( In the aquatic birds the feathers are con stantly lubricated by an oily secretion, which completely excludes the…

The Dinornis-A Bird Without Wings: Epyornis

The eggs and some of the bones of a gigantic bird, called the Epyornis, have been discovered in the island of Madagascar and taken to…

The Dinornis-A Bird Without Wings: Heron

The Long-legged Heron. land and belongs to the Ostrich family. One of the most remarkable of the These birds are found in extensive and…

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