Crossword-Solution: MITU 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The Mitu tuberosa lays two rough-shelled, white eggs; it is fully as large a bird as the common turkey, but the flesh when cooked is drier and not so well flavoured.

For instance, [symbol] when found in the body of a word, stood for the syllables hi or hat, mid, mit, til, ziz; as an ideogram it was used for a score of different concepts: that of lord or master, inu, bilu; that of blood, damu; for a corpse, pagru, shalamtu; for the feeble or oppressed, kahtu, nagpu; as the hollow and the spring, nakbu; for the state of old age, labaru; of dying, matu; of killing, mitu; of opening, pitu; besides other meanings.

One (the mitu tuberosa) has an orange-coloured beak, surmounted by a bean-shaped excrescence of the same hue.

One raises his voice, while the others subdue theirs, till all take up the chorus: Your head lies in my pouch, Zidra, mighty Zidra! Only our friend, Mitu Dola, was silent; he was much moved and kept turning first to one side and then to the other.

The bushes rattled and bent beneath the rain--storms of rain beat and splashed against the window-panes, a sea of sound, storm after storm." Here, as far as I can remember, Mitu Dola brought the story to a close.