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legs subcompressed (section oval), smooth, the lower edge 

 with a row of minute denticles directed forwards ; third joint 

 of the first pair nearly 4 lines wide, gradually decreasing to 

 the fifth pair, the third joints of which are about 1 line wide. 



Very abundant in the fine Fuller's earth of the " Lobster beds " 

 of the lower greensand of Atherfield, Isle of Wight ; also in the 

 Speeton clay of Speeton, Yorkshire coast. 



{Col. University of Cambridge.) 



Note. — As the Glyphcea rostrata (Phil, sp.) [Asfacus rostratus, 

 id., Geol. York) has been referred by Herman von Meyer (Neue 

 Gattungen fos. Krebse) and subsequent authors to the G. MUn- 

 steri, I may mention, that on comparing an authentic cast of that 

 species with the English one, I find the latter fully distinguished, 

 as a species, by the hind part of the thorax being much longer in 

 proportion to the depth, even slightly exceeding in this respect 

 the G. pustuiosa (V. Mey.), which it exactly resembles in the 

 character of its branchial furrows and their associated lobes, dif- 

 fering however from it and agreeing with the G. Munsteri in the 

 abrupt notch-hke narrowing of the margin in front of the nuchal 



furrow. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXV. — Supplementally Notices regarding the Dodo and its 

 Kindred. Nos. % 7, 8. By H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S. 



[Continued from vol. iii. p. 261.] 



6. On two additional bones of the Solitaire recently brought from 

 Mauritius. — We are indebted to the officers of the Royal Society 

 of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius for a valuable contribution to 

 Didine osteology. These gentlemen no sooner heard of the in- 

 terest w^hich the history of the Dodo had excited in Europe, than 

 they undertook to search in Mauritius and the adjacent islands 

 for such parts of the skeleton of these extinct birds as were 

 wanting to complete our knowledge. Before proceeding to 

 excavate the alluvions and caverns of those islands in quest of 

 bones, they \Adsely commenced by searching the cabinets of their 

 own museum. Two bones were here discovered, which tradition 

 referred to the Dodo, and these precious specimens the Society, 

 with the most praiseworthy liberality, have sent to Europe. 



The bones now sent belong, not to the true Dodo, as was sup- 

 posed by the Mauritian naturalists, but to that longer-legged 

 species which inhabited the island of Rodriguez, and was deno- 

 minated the Solitaire. They are both metatarsal bones, and 

 consequently are so far only duplicates of portions of that bird 

 which already existed in Europe. But from their superior state 

 of preservation they supply some valuable information which was 



