1 . PEZOPHAPS. 629 



1. PEZOPHAPS.* 



type. 



Pezophaps, Strickl., The Dodo audits Kindred, pp. 46, 54 



(1848) P. solitarius. 



Cf. Netoton, A. fy E., " On the. Osteology of the Solitaire or Didine 

 Bird of the Island of Rodriguez (Pezophaps solitaria, Gm.)" (Phil. 

 Trans'. 1869, pp. 327-362, pis. xv.-xxiv.). 



Range. Confined to Rodriguez Island. 



1. Pezophaps solitarius. 



Solitaire, Leguat, Voyage en deux lies desertes des Ind. Orient, i. pp. 



98-102, fig. p. 98 (1708) ; (Anonymous) Relation de Vile Rodrigue, 



Isle de France, Correspondance g le vol. 12 (Arch, de la Marine) 



(1760) ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. i. p. 485 (1770); Borowsk. Nat. ii. 



p. 162 (1781); Ray (P. A. F), Zool. Univ. et portat. p. 567 



(1788) ; Grant, Hist, of Mauritius SfC. p. 117 (1801) ; Bum. 



Diet. Sc. Nat. xlix. p. 451 ( 1827) ; Strickl. The Dodo and its 



Kindr. pp. 46, 56, fig. p. 41), pp. 113-119, pis. xiii., xiv., xv. 



(1848): Schleg. Versl. en Meded. d. k. Ak. van Wetensch., Afd. 



Natuurk. vii. p. 126 (1857) ; id. Ibis, 1866, pp. 150, 152; id. Ann. 



Sc. Nat. (5) vi. pp. 29, 31, pi. i. f. 3 (1866). 

 Solitary Dodo, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. 1, p. 3, n. 2 (1785) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 374 (1823). 

 Didus solitarius, Gm. S. N. i. p. 728, n. 2 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 



p. 662, n. 2 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 166 (1790) ; Dondd. 



Orn. Beytr. SfC ii. p. 20 (1795) ; Bechst. Lath. Uebers. ii. p. 765 



(1795) ; Rees, New Cyclop. 10, pt. 2, Didus (1808) ; Cuv. Regn. An. 



i. p. 463 (1817) ; Sonnini, N. D. xxxi. p. 376 (1819) ; Steph. Gen. 



Zool. xiv. p. 309 (1826) ; Ranz. Elem. di Zool. iii. pt. ix. p. 311 



(1826) ; Cuv. Regn. An. 2nd ed. i. p. 497 (1829) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. 



p. 11 (1831); Strickl. P. Z. S. 1844, pp. 77-79; id. Instit. xiii. 



n. 582, pp. 73-74 (1845) ; E. Newt. Tr. R. Soc. Arts and Sc. of 



Mauritius, (n. s.) iii. pp. 31-38 (1866). 

 Dronte, Cuv. Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. 31, Rev. Bibl. p. 103 ; id. Bull. Sc. 



Nat. xxii. pp. 122-125 (1830) (Isle de France, errore). 

 Dodo, Cuv. Edinb. Journ. Nat. and Geogr. Sc. (n. ser.) iii. pp. 30-32 



(1831) ; Dujard. Analys. des Tr. Soc. Hist. nat. de Vile Maurice, 



pend. le 2nde Annee, p. . . . (1832); id. P. Z. S. 1832, p. Ill 



* The following two extinct birds have been referred to the genus Pe-ophaps, 

 but both are Ralline Birds with rudimentary wings: — 



1. Didus broeckii, Schleg. Versl. en Meded. k. Ak. Amsferd. ii. p. 256 (1854). 

 Pezophaps broeekei, Schleg. MltS. P.-B. Struthiones, p. 4 (1*73) ; Gu-b. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 75 (1877). 

 This is Aphanapteryx broeckii— A. imperialis, Fraueuf. 



2. Didus heubf.ktii, Schleg. Versl. en Meded. k. Ak. Amsterd. ii. p. 256 



(1854). 

 Pezophaps herberti, Schley. Mus. P.-R. Struthiones, p. 4(1873); Gieb 

 ZTfes. <>ni. iii. p. 76(1877). 

 This is Miserythrus legitati. Alph. M.-Edw., also a Ralline bird (Ibis, 1874. 

 p. 4").">). 



