160 COLUMB.i:. 



Didus ineptus. 



JJah. Mauritius. 



701. Skeleton (imperfect). From the Miire aux Songes. 0. C. 



A. 1424 A. Purdiaae.d. 



702. Various bones (some exhibited in separate series). 0. C. 



A. 1424 b. Presented Jnj ihe lihhop of Maui'itms. 



703. Cast of head. A. 1424 b a. From the original in tlu' 



Oxford Museum. Purcluised. 



704. Sternum (injured). S. S. 1522. 



Presented J>ij the Bisliop of Manritivs. 



705. Oast of bones of the foot. 0. 0., A. 1424 b h. Purchased. 



Genus PEZOPHAPS. 

 Strickland & Melville, Uodo and its Kindred, p. 4(3 (].'S48). 



Pezophaps solitarius. 



Didus soUtarins, Gmelin, Syst. ]S'at. ii. p. 728 (1788). 



Pezophaps solitarius, Strickl. & Melville, Dodo and its Kindred, 

 p. 46, pis. xiii.-xT. (1848) ; A. Newton, P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 715 : 

 A. & E. Newton, Phil. Trans, vol. elix. pp. 327-362, pis. xv.- 

 xsiv. (1869): E. Newt. & J. W. Clark, op. cit. elxviii. pp. 438- 

 4.51, pis. xliv.-l. (1879). 



The Solitaire. 



Ilah. Rodriguez. 



706, 707. Skeletons of male and female. A. 1424 D, E. Collected 

 in Rodriguez by Rev. H. H. Slater (Transit of Venus 

 Exjied. 1874). Presented hy the Poyal Societij. 



708. Various bones. 0. C, A. 1424 f. From Rodriguez. 



Collected hy the Rev. II. II. Slater. 



709. Various bones. 0. C, A. 1424 c. 



Presented hy Sir Edward, jXeictoji, K.C.M.G. 



