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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Notes on the Dodo, by H. E. Strickland - - - 309 



Tiie Passame sares Galiard, by C. Forbes - - 311 



Folk Lore in Hull 311 



Minor Notes : — MS. Notes in Books — " Clamour your 

 Tongues "— " I wait but for my guard " — September, 

 1752— Tolli, a Sculptor - - - - - 312 



Queries : — 



Monument of Richard Strongbow _ _ - 313 



Medallic Queries, by John J. A. Boase . - - 314 



Anti-Jacobin Song -..--- 314 



Winhall Monument and Quartering of Arms - - 314 



Minor Queries : — English Nobleman in the Service of 

 Henri Qiiatre — " The Shift Shifted "— The Chaunt- 

 ing of Jurors — Remarkable Voyage—" A Hair of the 

 Dog that bit you" — Bibere Papaliter — " Caudam 

 deme, volat " — Oblations — Eiebreis — Huguenots in 

 Ireland — The Duchesse de Chevreuse swimming 

 across the Thames — " Hardened and Annealed" — 

 Cawarden Family — The Dutch East-India Company 

 — Church Bells — The Irish Convocation — Marriage 

 of Greeks in England — Walter Haddon - - 315 



Minor Queries Answered: — Catching a Tartar — 

 Derivation of " Huguenot "— Rev. Peter Layng — 

 Coventry — Bonnyclabber — Bassano's " Church 

 Notes " — Degradation from Holy Orders— The Due 

 de Normandie ------ 317 



Replies : — 



Legend of Sir Richard Baker . - - - 318 



" The good Old Cause " 319 



Photography applied to ArchiEology, and practised in 



tlie open Air, by Dr. H. W. Diamond - - - 319 



Curious Mistranslation, &c. - . - - 320 



Emaciated Monumental Effigies . - - - 321 



Morell's Book-Plate, by Richard Hooper - - 322 



Heraldic Queries, by John W. Papworth - - 322 



Muffs worn by Gentlemen, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c. 322 



Glass-making in England, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 323 



Cap of Maintenance, by C. H. Cooper - - - 324 



Replies to Minor Queries : — " Balnea, vina, Venus " — 

 Portrait of Lady Venetia Digl)y — Camoens' Version 

 of the 137th Psalm— Lintot's House— Norfolk Dialect 



— Passages in Bingham — Whipping of Women in 

 England—" Works of the Learned "— Harvest Moon 

 — " De Laudibus Sancta Crueis " — Furye Family — 

 Mummies in Germany — Remarkable Trees — Roman 

 Road in Berkshire — St. Augustinus " De Musica " 



— Raspberry Plants — The Book of Destinies _ 



Gradus ad Parnassum — "Lord Stafford mines" 



Epigram by Owen — Episcopal Sees — Chronogram — 

 Spur Sunday — Statuta Exoniae — " The Boik-d Pig " 326 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - ... - 329 



B-^oks and Odd Volumes wanted - - .. - 330 



Notices to Correspondents . - » - 330 



Advertisements - - . • . - 331 



Vol. VI. — jSTo. 153. 



NOTES ON THE DODO. 



Having noticed in your recent Nos. several 

 communications on the subject of the Dodo, which 

 have been elicited by the Queries which I proposed 

 in " N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 262., allow me to thank 

 your various correspondents for their kindness in 

 supplying me and others with some valuable in- 

 formation. I have already (Vol. i., p. 410., and 

 Vol. ii., p. 24.) noticed the communication of 

 Mr. Singer : the next that I find is by an anony- 

 mous correspondent, who signs himself T. J., and 

 who refers me, in answer to Query 7., to Hyde's 

 Historia Beligionis Persarum, for a notice of the 

 Dodo existing, a.d. 1700, in the Ashmolean 

 Museum. This passage, however, was well known 

 to me, and is referred to in The Dodo and its 

 Kindred, p. 23. 



I thereibre pass on to Mr. J. M. van Maanen, 

 who in Vol. v., p. 515., refers to Nieuhof's Bra- 

 siliaense zee en lantrieze, Amsterdam, 1682, as an 

 original authority on the Dodo. I had already 

 consulted the translation of this work in Churchill's 

 Voyages, vol. ii. p. 354. ; but neither it nor the 

 Dutch edition appear to supply original informa- 

 tion. There is, I believe, no proof that Nieuhof 

 ever visited Mauritius or saw a Dodo. His figure 

 is evidently reduced from the original one in Piso's 

 edition of Bontius's Historia Naturalis et Medica 

 Indice Orientalis, 1658, from which almost all the 

 figures given by later compilers were copied. And 

 Nieuhof's description seems also to be little more 

 than a compilation from the accounts of antecedent 

 authors. The only point of interest in it is the 

 derivation, which Nieuhof alone gives us, of the 

 name Dodaers, which refers, as I had conjectured, 

 to the rotundity of the bird's hinder parts and the 

 laziness of its movements. Of the name Dronte, 

 however, he gives us no information, and its ety- 

 mology is still to seek. 



This brings me to my friend Mb. Hooper's com- 

 munication, Vol. vi., p. 34., in which he suggests 

 some ingenious and rather recondite heraldic in- 

 vestigations, which may possibly throw light on 

 the question, "Why was the Dodo called a 

 Dronte." 



