ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



exterminated, like the Dodo, by human agency : some small species allied 

 to the Apteryx, may possibly be met with in the unexplored parts of the 

 Middle Island. 



THE DODO. Vol. I. page 291. 



A most valuable and highly interesting history of the Dodo and its 

 kindred* has recently appeared, in which the history, affinities, and osteo- 

 logy of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the Islands 

 Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon, are admirably elucidated, by H. G. 

 Strickland (of Oxford), and Dr. G. A. Melville. The historical part is by 

 the former, the osteological and physiological portion by the latter eminent 

 anatomist. We would earnestly recommend the reader interested in the 

 most perfect history that has ever appeared, of the extinction of a race 

 of large animals, of which thousands existed but three centuries ago, to 

 refer to the original work. We have only space enough to state that 

 the authors have proved upon the most incontrovertible evidence, that the 

 Dodo was neither a vulture, ostrich, nor galline, as previous anatomists 

 supposed, but zfrugiverous pigeon. 



* The Dodo and its Kindred. By Messrs. Strickland and Melville. 1 TO!., 4to., with 

 numerous plates. Reeves, London, 1848. 



