030 wdiiu:. 



(Rodriguez); id. Phi/us. Mag. (2) i. p. 461; Telfair, P. Z. S. 



1833, p. 31 (Rodriguez). 

 Pezophaps solitaria, Strickl. The Dodo, 8fc. p. 46 (1848) ; Selys- 



Longch. Rev. Zool. 1848. p. 293, n. 2 ; G. R. Gr: Gen. B. ii. p. 483 



(1848); Strickl. Contr. to Orn. 1852, p. 19; Bp. Consp. At. ii. 



p. 3 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 840, n. 6 (1856) ; Strickl. 



Tr. Zool. Soc. iv. pp. 187-196, pi. 35 (1859); Rchnb. Tauben, 



i p 128 (1862) ; Lunel, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1865, p. 150 ; 



A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 715-718; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 552, 



1867, p. 146, 1868, p. 362; A. §■ E. Newt. Pr. Roy. Soc. xvi. 



pp. 428-433 (1868); id. Ann. fy Mag. N. H. (4) ii. pp. 159-165 



(1868) ; id. Philos. Trans. 1869, pp. 327-362, pis. xv.-xxiv. ; Clark, 



P. Z. S. 1869, p. 473; Owen, Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. pp. 513-525, 



pi. 66. ff. 1-4 (1871) ; A. Newt. Ibis, 1872, p. 32 ; Salv. fy Sclat. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 448 ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Struthiones, p. 4 (1873) ; 



A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 195, 1875, p. 40 ; A. # E. Newt. Ibis, 



1876, p. 288 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 75 (1877) ; Owen, Ann. Sf 



Mag. N. H. (5) i. pp. 87-98, pis. vii. & viii. (1878) ; A. Newt. 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 291 ; E. Newt. Sc J. W. Clark, Philos. Trans. 



1879, pp. 438-451, pis. xliv.-l. ; Lindsay, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 712, f. 4 



(sternum) ; Lydekker, Cat. Foss. B. p. 128 (1891). 

 Didus nazarenus, Bartl. (nee Gm.) P. Z. S. 1851, p. 284, pi. xlv. * ; 



id. Ann, # Mag. N. H. (2) xiv. pp. 297-301 (1854); A. Newt. 



P.Z. S. 1865, pp. 199-201, pi. viii. t, p. 716 (=P. solitaria) ; id. 



Ann. 8c Mag. N. H. (3) xvi. pp. 61-63 (1865) ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 153 



(note), p. 552. 

 Pezophaps minor, Strickl. Contr. to Orn. 1852, p. 19; id. Tr. Zool. 



Soc. iv. p. 191 ( $ ) (1859) ; A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 710 (note)_; 



Oicen, Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. pp. 519, and follow., pi. lxvi. ff. 0, 6, 7, 



12 (1871). 

 Didus ineptus, A. Newt, (nee L.) Ibis, 1865, pp. 199, 201 (Rodriguez). 

 Pezophaps solitarius, A. Neivt. Enc. Brit. 3rd ed. iii. p. 732, with 



figure (ex Leguat) (1875) ; Sharpe, Cat. Mus. R. Cell. Surg. iii. 



p. 160 (1891). 



Known from its bones, from the original account and figure 

 of Leguat (1691-1693), and also from some meagre information we 

 have from D'Heguerty (1754) (' Mem. de la Soc. Roy. des Sc. et 

 Belles-Lettres de Nancy,' i. p. 79), and from the account given by 

 the Abbe Pingre, who states that he was assured in 1761 that the 

 bird was then alive ('Relations du voyage de l'abbe Pingre a l'ile 

 de Rodrigue,' MS. in the library of Ste. Genevieve at Paris). 



The following is an extract from Leguat's description :— " The 

 Feathers of the Males are of a brown grey Colour ; the Feet and Beak 

 are like a Turkeys, but a little more crooked. They have scarce any 

 Tail, but their Hind-part cover'd with Feathers is Roundish, like the 

 Crupper of a Horse, they are taller than Turkeys. Their Neck is 

 straight and a little longer in proportion than a Turkeys, when it lifts 

 up his Head. Its Eye is black and lively, and its Head without Comb 

 or Cop. They never fly, their wings are too little to support the 



* " On some Bones of Didus" (I. c. pp. 280-284). 



t " On some recently discovered Bones of the largest known species of Dodo 

 Didus nazarenus, Bartlett)." 



