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nearly perfect, it seems to have been much exposed to the action of 

 the weather, and, in consequence of its condition, it has sustained a 

 Httle damage by the crumbHng away of some part of its extremities. 

 This has probably happened since its discovery ; but one advantage 

 results from the circumstance — namely, that the cellular structure 

 of the bone is thereby rendered plainly visible. 



I proceed to give the dimensions of these specimens, and, for con- 

 venience of comparison, I shall, as far as possible, follow Dr. Mel- 

 ville's plan of measurement (' The Dodo and its Kindred,' page 116). 



Fragment of left Humerus. 



inches, lines. 



Transverse diameter of shaft 6 



Antero-posterior diameter of shaft 4f 



Left Tarao-metatarsus. 



Length from middle trochlear groove to inter-condyloid ) ^ 



tubercle / ^ 1" 



external trochlear to external condyloid fossa 6 4 



internal trochlear to internal condyloid fossa 6 7 



Breadth of upper extremity 1 6 



Antero-posterior diameter of the same 1 3 



Breadth of lower extremity 1 7 



Projection of ento-calcaneal process 8 



Right Femur. 



Length from inter-condyloid notch to upper surface of neck 6 



upper edge of trochanter major to external ) ^ _ 



condyle J " ^ 



Transverse diameter of shaft 10 



Antero-posterior 7^ 



Transverse diameter of upper extremity 2 Of 



Transverse diameter of lower extremity 1 10 



All these specimens, unlike those in the Paris Museum, are en- 

 tirely free from incrustation. 



I believe there are no other examples of the humerus and femur 

 of this species in this country. The specimen of the tarso-metatar- 

 sus figured in illustration of Mr. Bartlett's paper, to which I before 

 referred (P. Z. S. 1851, Aves, pi. xlv. fig. 1) is, as I learn from Mr. 

 Gerrard, now in the British Museum, and there are other examples 

 of it in the Andersonian Museum at Glasgow. 



I must here tender my thanks to Mr. W. K. Parker for the kind 

 assistance he has rendered me in accurately measuring these bones. 



And now I wish to make one suggestion. It is well known that 

 at Oxford there is an old picture of a Dodo, painted by one of the 

 Saverys, which seems hitherto to have been referred without hesi- 

 tation to Didus ineptus. Mr. Strickland, in speaking of it, says : — 

 " A remarkable feature in it is its colossal scale, the Dodo standing 

 about 3 feet 6 inches high, and being double the size which the 



