2. DIDOS. 



( ;:',.-) 



is contained in a journal kept by Benj. Harry, now in the British 

 Museum (MSS. Addit. L!668, 1 1. 1).). 



Besides a great number of bones, which have been discovered at 

 different times, and especially by Mr. George Clark, of Mauritius, 

 in 1865, there are a few scattered relics of this bird — a head and a 

 foot at Oxford, a perfect head at Copenhagen, and a foot iu the 

 British Museum. 



a. Picture made in Holland from a living bird, probably by 



Roland Savery, formerly belonging to Sir Hans Sloane, 

 and afterwards the property of G. Edwards. 



b. c, d. Three casts of the head in the University Museum 



of Oxford. 



e. Foot, figured by Mitchell in the ' Genera of Birds,' pi. 120, 



and by Strickland and Melville, ' The Dodo,' pi. vi. 



f. Skeleton, nearly complete, described and figured by 



Strickland and Melville, op. cit. pis. viii., ix., x., xii., 



and xiii. 

 y. Cast of the osseous head in the Copenhagen Museum. 

 h. Cast of the upper mandible and part of the skull in the 



Royal Museum of Prague. 

 i. Cast of the bones of the foot in the University Museum 



of Oxford. 

 A;. Several dorsal vertebrae. 



/. Portion of the cranium cut in half through its length. 

 in. Distal portions of the upper osseous bill and of the lower 



mandible. 

 n-q. Complete lower mandible and fragments. 

 ;•. Nine ribs. 



s. Sternum cut transversely. 

 t, u. Two coracoids with the scapulas, 

 i'. Ri^ht coracoid with the corresponding half of the 



furculum. 

 10. Bight coracoid. 

 .c. Left scapula. 

 //. Half of a furculum. 

 ;. a', />'. Right and left humerus and fragment. 



c . Two radia. 

 d', e'. Pel \ is. 

 f'-i'. Four right and left femora. 



k' ri . Tibia' and fragment. 



o',p. Fibula? . 



(/, f' , s . Tarso-metatarsi. 



t . Miscellaneous bones, Mare aux Songes. Purchased of 



Mr. 11. II. Slater. 



2. Didus(?) horhonicus. 



Great Fowl, Tat/on. I'm/. <</' Castleton, in Purehas's Pilgrimage, 

 ed. 1626, i. p. 331 (Bourbon, Reunion); xtrickl. A- Melv. Dodo etc. 

 p. 57 (1848). 



Dod-eersen, Bontekoe, Journ. ofte gedenck. beschr. van de Oost-Ind, 

 Jiei/se, Haarlem, 164G, p. 6, Iintterdam, 1647, p. 7. Amsterdam, 

 1648. p. 5, 1650, p. 5, llnc/d, 1649, p. 6; Wrick I. \ Melv. op. cit. 

 p. 57 (1848). 



Oiseau Solitaire, Carre. Voy. des 1ml. Orient, i. p. 12 (1699). 



Solitaire, I). B. (Du Bois), MS., Journ. et liel. des Voy. aux ilea 





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