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appears, being the earliest published representation of its unwieldy 

 form, with a footnote stating that the voyagers brought an example 

 alive to Holland. Among the company there was a draughtsman, 

 and from a sketch of his Clusius, a few years after, gave a figure 

 of the bird, which he vaguely called " Gallmaceus Gallus peregrinus," 

 but described rather fully. Meanwhile two other Dutch fleets had 

 visited Mauritius. One of them had a draughtsman on board, and 

 his original sketches fortunately still exist in a library at Utrecht. 

 Thi'ee or four of them represent the Dodo, and one of them is here 



Reduced from a tracing by Prof. Schlegel of the original drawing in a MS. journal kept 

 during Wolphart Harmanszoon's voyage to Mauritius (a.d. 1601-1002). 



reproduced, for the first time, but on a smaller scale. ^ Of the 

 other fleet, a journal kept by one of the skippers was subsequently 

 published. This in the main corroborates what has been before 

 said of the birds, but adds the curious fact that they 'were now 

 called by some Dodaarsen and by others Dronten.^ 



^ On tlie death of Prof. Schlegel, who announced his intention of publishing 

 these sketches in fac-simile, I became possessed of his collection of drawings of 

 the Dodo and other extinct birds of Mauritius, which includes tracings by him 

 of these curious and interesting sketches (c/. Exteemixation). 



- The etymology of these names has been much discussed. The former has 

 been shewn by Prof. Schlegel ( Vcrsl. en Me.dcdeel. K. Akad. Wdcnsch. ii. pp. 255 

 et seqq.) to be the homely name of the Dabchick or Little Grebe, FodicijKS 



