636 DIDIDJE. 



Daujine ou Madag. et de Bourbon ou Mascarenne, 1669; Strickl. 



P. Z. S. 1844, p. 78 ; Strickl. $■ Melv. op.cit. p. 58 (1848) ; Bolle, 



J. f. O. 1856, p. 322 ; Dubois, Ann. Sc. Nat. (5) vi. p. 43 (note) 



(1866). 

 Apterornis solitarius, de Selys, Bev. Zool. 1848, p. 293. 

 Didus apterornis, Schleg. Ook een Wordje over den Dodo, p. 15, f. 2 



(1854) ; id. Over de Struisart. Vog.in Album der Natuur, 1854, xi. 



p. 323, f. in p. 21. 

 Pezophaps borbonica, Bp. ex Strickland, fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 2 



(1854). 

 Ornitbaptera borbonica, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 2 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend, xliii. p. 840, n. 3 (1856). 

 Didus ineptus, Tegetm. (nee Linn.) P. Z. S. 1866, p. 201. 

 Didus sp., A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 179. 

 Didine Bird of the Island of Bourbon (Reunion), A. Newt. Tr. Zool. 



Soc. vi. pp. 373-376, pi. 62 (1867) *. 

 Apterornis solitaria, Milne- Edw. Ibis, 1869, p. 272. 

 ? Didus borbonicus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Struthiones, p. 3 (1873). 

 Solitaire of Reunion, A. Newt. Enc. Brit. ii. p. 732 (1875). 



According to Prof. A. Newton : — 



1st. The Didine bird of Bourbon in general shape resembled the 

 true Dodo of Mauritius. 



2nd. Its plumage was white, with some admixture of yellow ; and 



3rd. The first four primaries of the wings were not directed 

 backwards, but downwards and forwards. 



Mentioned by Tatton, Bontekoe, Carre, and Du Bois. Bontekoe 

 gave a figure which, like a picture in the possession of Mr. C. Dare 

 of Clatterford, and now deposited in a museum at Carisbrooke 

 Castle, in the Isle of Wight, according to Prof. Newton represents 

 the Bourbon Dodo. 



* " On a Picture supposed to represent the Didine Bird of the Island of 

 Bourbon (Reunion)" (I.e.). 



