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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



this, Rodriguez, and Reunion had also their respective species of large 

 tortoises, but these too went the way of the dodo and its kindred, and 

 only bones remain to tell the story of their former abundance. De Bry, 

 the chronicler of Van Neck's voyage, says the Walckvogel were " big- 

 ger than our swans, with large heads, half of which is covered with 

 skin like a hood. These birds want wings, in place of which are three 

 or four blackish feathers. The tail consists of a few slender curved 

 feathers of a gray color." 



Fig. 22. 

 Facsimile of Piao's figure of the Dodo * 



* This figure was probably made from one of Savary's paintings, and is found on 

 page 70 of an appendix to a work by Gruliemus Piso. 



The title is as follows: Ouliemi Pisonis Medici Amstehedamensis de India? Utrius- 

 que Re Naturali et Medica, Libri Quatuordeciui: Quorum contenta pagina sequens 

 exhibet Amstelsedami Apud Ludovicum et Danieleu Elzeverios. AD CIO IOCLVIII. 

 Jacobi Bontii Medici CWitatis Bataviae Novae in lava Ordinarii Historic Naturalis 

 et Medica'. India- Orientali.s. Libri .Sex. Liber quintus, Caput xvn, p. 70 De 

 Droute, aliis Dod-aers. 



