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mediately recognized the remains of which I have just been 

 speaking, as belonging to the species represented along with the 

 Dodo, and I felt certain that this very singular bill, and the 

 leg-bones, came from the same bird. 



The lower mandible (figs. 3 & 4) found in Mauritius is nearly 



Fio-. 3. Fi-. 4. 



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perfect, wanting only one of the articular extremities. Through- 

 out the portion corresponding to the dentary bone, it is gently 

 decurved in a regular manner, so that its lower edge follows 

 almost exactly the arc of a circle, having a radius of 0'"*11. In 



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