888 SOLITAIRE 
ereat work in 1770, though the writer? regarded much of it as 
fabulous, and hence, through Latham, Gmelin in 1788 accorded 
technical recognition to Leguat’s bird as Didus solitarius, while 
Strickland, sixty years after, referring it to a distinct genus, 
Pezophaps, continued the latter’s name for it as an English word. 
For want of space the de- 
lightful account given by its 
discoverer cannot be here 
reproduced.2, Except a 
brief notice by D’ Heguerty 
(Mém. Soc. Se. Nancy, 1. 
p. 79) in 1751, which adds 
little to Leguat’s account, 
and a manuscript report by 
Pingré, who observed the 
transit of Venus of 1761 
in Rodriguez, to the effect 
that the bird was then sup- 
posed still to exist though 
withdrawn to the most 
inaccessible parts of the 
yeeres Travatle, p. 211) must 
have heard of it in 1634 or 
Sess CIYLLE earlier, but thought it was the 
: SE Gy Dopo (p. 158), which certainly 
GG As tty was not in “Dygarroys” (= 
ne Rodriguez), though it possibly 
gave the hint to Nevile. 
1 In the ‘‘ Zable” of the 
original edition the article is 
~.. assigned to Buffon ; but Sonnini, 
=~- in his edition (iv. p. 343), says 
it was by Guéneau de Mont- 
b beillard. 
Souitarre or Ropricuez. (After Leguat.) * Voyage et avuntures de 
Francois Lequat, &c, 2 vols. 
Londres: 1708. An English translation, made, according to Fennell (field-Nat. 
ii. p. 185, note), by one Thompson, appeared in London the same year ; and this 
has been edited for the Hakluyt Society (in 2 vols. 1891) with notes and many 
additional illustrations by Capt. Oliver. Copious extracts from both French and 
English versions are given by Strickland (Zhe Dodo and its Kindred, pp. 46-50), 
and some passages have often been reprinted elsewhere. A Dutch translation 
was published at Utrecht in 1708, and a German at Frankfurt and Leipzig in 
1709. A mutilated French version appeared at Paris, without date, but after 
1759, and was reissued there in 1883, with notes by M. Eugene Muller. M. 
Théodore Sauzier has done a great service to the admirers of Leguat by discovering 
and reprinting a very rare tract to which he refers, Un projet de république (Paris : 
1887), written by Du Quesne and published anonymously at Amsterdam in 1689. 
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