634 DIDIDiE. 



Wihnot, Field, xliii. p. 177, n. 1104, Feb. 21, 1874; A. Newt. 

 P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 447-449, 1875, p. 349 ; G-ieb. Thes. Orn. ii. 

 p. 46 (1875); Newt. Enc. Brit. iii. p. 732 (1875); id. P. Z. S. 

 1876, p. 333 ; id. Enc. Brit. vii. p. 321 (1877) ; Cory, Beaut. Sf 

 Curious Birds, pt. i. pi. 1 (1880); Lindsay, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 712, 

 f. 1 (sternum); Caldw. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 719; E. Newt. P. Z. S. 

 1890, p. 402 ; Lucas, Rep. Nat. Mus. 1888-89, p. . . . ; Lydekket , 

 Cat. Foss. B. p. 129 (1891) ; Shaiye, Cat. Mus. Roy. Coll. Surg. iii. 

 p. 159 (1891) ; E. Newt. $ Gadow, P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 544, 545. 

 Hooded Dodo, Lath. Gen. Syn. v. p. 1 (1787) ; Shaw, Nat. Misc. iv. 

 pi. 123, pi. 143 (leg) (1792 c), v. pi. 166 (head) (1792 c.) ; id. Zoolog. 

 Led. i. p. 213. 



The following description is copied from Edwards, who took it 

 from an original picture of the bird then in his possession and now 

 in the British Museum : — 



" The figure in the original is about thirty inches high ; the bill 

 in its greatest lineal length is nine inches ; the eyes are placed in 

 the basis of the upper mandible. 



" The bill, which is hooked at the end like a Parrot's, is blackish, 

 except a little redness above the tip on its arched part; it hath 

 risings above the nostrils ; half the bill, next the head, is of a 

 light ash-colour ; the iris of the eye is whitish. The feathers of the 

 crown of the head meet and join the bill in an angle, forming the 

 appearance of a hood. The whole bird, except the wings and tail, 

 is an ash-colour, darker on the upper side, and lighter on the under ; 

 the breast is almost white, and the feathers about the joints of the 

 legs almost black. The tail is placed very high, and the feathers, 

 which are of a whitish colour, rising. The greater or quill feathers 

 of the wings are of a yellowish-white, the covert-feathers white 

 with black tips, and the smaller coverts on the ridge of the wing 

 ash-coloured. The legs and feet, which are thick and strong, are 

 covered with a scaly yellow skin; each foot hath three toes 

 standing forward, and one backward *; the claws are black.*' 



This bird, which inhabited Mauritius, is now extinct ; it was still 

 living in 1681 ; the last evidence we have of the Dodo's existence 



* The following references belong to a bird described by Cauclie with only 

 three toes ; but it is generally admitted that this was a mistake, and that the 

 bird was the Dodo : — 



Oiseau de Nazareth, Cauche, Desor. de Vile de Madaq. pp. 130 and follow. 



(1651). l 



Oiseau de Nazare ou Oiseau de nausee, Buff'. Hist. Nat. Ois. i. p. 485 



and follow. (1770) ; Bum. Diet. So. Nat. xxxv. p. 494 (1825). 

 Nazarene Dodo, Lath. Syn. Av. iii. 1, p. 4, n. 3 (1781). 

 Didus nazaremis, Gin. S. N. i. p. 729, n. 3(1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 



p. 663, n. 3 (1790) ; Bonn. Tab/. Enc. Meth. i. p. 167 (1790) ; Guv. Regn. 



An. i. p. 463 (note) (1817) ; Sonnini, N. D. xxiii. p. 431 (1818); Steph. 



Gen. Zoo/, xiv. p. 310(1826); Banz. Mem. iii. pt. is. p. 311 (1826); 



Cuv. Regn. An. 2nd ed. i. p. 498 (note) (1829); Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 11 



(1838); StricM. # Me/v. Dodo $c. p. 21 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 2 



(1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 840, n. 5 (1856); Bolle, J.f. O. 1856, 



p. 325 ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 128 (1862). 



