lieceiit Ornithological Publications. 479 



ber of the ' Zoologische Garten/ a periodical which constantly 

 contains much that is of interest to the ornithologist, Herr Pfarrer 

 Jackel gives (pp. 35-37) an account of " Eiue alte Abbildung 

 des Dronte," another portrait, in addition to the many we have, 

 by Roelandt Savery of this wonderful bird, which exists in the 

 well-known picture-gallery at Pommersfelden, near Bamberg. 

 The Dodo, charmed by the music of Orpheus, is here represented 

 as cooling its toes in shallow water ; and the liberality of the 

 Inspector of the gallery — Herr Wollenweber, who accordingly 

 deserves the thanks of naturalists, — has allowed the figure to be 

 copied, though we cannot say that the w^oodcut seems to be a 

 very artistic production. It differs somewhat from the other repre- 

 sentations by the same artist in the curiously elevated tail, but, 

 with this exception, has much their look. 



In the Zoological Section of the 'Isis' Society of Dresden, 

 Dr. Behn towards the end of last year communicated some 

 remarks on the Dodo ; and the same learned naturalist has since 

 published in the ' Leopoldina ' an abstract of Prof. Owen's paper 

 on the Osteology of that bird, to which he has prefixed some 

 remarks on its history and added other particulars respecting it 

 which have escaped the notice of previous investigators. The 

 most remarkable, perhaps, of these is the account given by one 

 Volquard Iversen, a Holsteiner, in a work published first at 

 Sleswig, in 1669, and subsequently at Hamburg*, wherein 

 (p. 195) he says that if one caught a Dodo and held it by the 

 leg it cried out, whereupon others ran up to help the prisoner 

 and were themselves taken. A second very interesting state- 

 ment is contained in a small volume by one Hoffmann f a Hes- 

 sian, who speaks (p. 52) of " a singular kind of red bird, called 

 ' Toddarsche * and as big as a common Fowl, which though it 

 cannot fly, yet on that account does not run the less swiftly," 



* Orientalische Reise-Beschreibuiige Jiirgen Andersen aus Schleswig 

 unci Volquard Iverseu aus Ilolstcin &c. Schleswig : 1669, fol. ; Hamburg : 

 1696, fol. 



t Oost-Indianibche Voyage &c., Durch Joliann Christian Hoffmann, 

 vormahls D. G. W. auf der lusel Mauritius ; itziger Zeit Predigern zu 

 Heckershausen. Cassel : 16S0, sm. Bvo. 



