i>ir>i. J 59 



695. Bones of trunk. 0. (J. 1425. Hnnterian. 



696. Sternum. 0. ('. U2G. Huntetdan. 



697. Sternum, with slioulder-girdle, without left coracoid and 



scapuk. S. S. 1765. Start's. 



6:8. Pelvis. 0. 0. 1426 a. 



699. Pelvis (bisected). 0. C. 1426 b. 



Genus DIDUNCULUS. 



Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. viii. p. 208, pi. Ix. (1848). 



Didunculus strigirostris. 



Gnailiodon strigirostris, Jardinc, Ann. & Hag. Nat. Hist. xvi. 



p. 175, pi. 9 "(1845). 

 Didunculus strigirostris (Jard.), Gould, Handb. B. Austr, ii. p. 550 



(1865). 



The Tooth-billed Pigeon. 



Ila/j. Samoa Islands. 



700. Natural skeleton : mounted. Specimen figured in Owen's 



Memoir on the Dodo (Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. pis. ii., iii. 

 fig. 2). 0. C. 1424a. Presented hy Dr. George Bennett. 



Suborder II. DIDI. 



Genus DIDUS. 

 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 2G7 (17GG). 



Didus ineptus. 



Bidus ineptus, Linnaeus, 8yst. Nat. i, p. 267(1766); Strickl. & 

 Melville, Dodo and its Kindred, p. 1, pis. v,-xii. (1848); Owen, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vi. pp. 49-85 (1866) ; Clark, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 141 ; Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1866, v. pp. 355-380, 

 pis. xiii.-xviii. 



The Dodo. 



