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XV. Additional evidence relative to the Dodo. By W. J. Broderip, Esq., F.R.S., 

 L.S., G.S., Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London. 



Read March 28, 1852. 



XHE interest which attaches to any communication relative to an extinct, and, at one 

 time, a doubted species, must be my apology for offering the following addition to the 

 evidences of the existence and habits of the Dodo. 



My old and valued friend Professor Owen presented me, on his return from Holland 

 some time since, with a short thick volume, bearing on its title-page (not without black 

 letter) the following promise : — 



" C. Plinii Secundi Des wijdt-vermaerden Natuurkondigers vijf Boecken. 



Handelen van de Nature. 

 I. Van de Menschen. 

 II. Van de viervoetige en Kruypende Dieren. 



III. Van de Vogelen. 



IV. Van de Kleyne Beestjes of Ongedierten. 

 V. Van de Visschen, Oesters, Kreeften, &c. 



"Hier zijn by-gevoeght de Schriften van verscheyden andere oude Authueren de 

 Natuur der Dieren aengaende. En nu in desen laetsen Druck wel het vierde part 

 vermeerdert, uyt verscheyden nieuwe Schrijvers en eygen oudervindinge : en met veel 

 Kopere Platen verziert t'Amsterdam, By Abraham Wolfgangh, 1662." 



The frontispiece presents the artist's notion of the Garden of Eden, with a very Dutch 

 Adam and Eve, the latter with the apple in her hand, while the serpent twined round 

 the tree looks sly and satisfied. Our first parents are surrounded by beasts, and in 

 the foreground is represented a piece of water with waterfowl and "ill-shaped fishes." 



The superscription is " C. Plinius S. van de Menschen, Beesten, Vogelen en 

 Visschen." 



Mr. Strickland, in his elaborate work on 'The Dodo and its Kindred',' in which 

 he has done me the honour to adopt the arrangement and the information collected 

 in my article "Dodo," in the 'Penny Cyclopaedia^,' gives some addenda in his post- 

 script to Part I. of his and Dr. Melville's book. "The first of these," writes Mr. 

 Strickland, " is a rare edition of Bontekoe's Voyage, kindly communicated to me by 

 Dr. Bandinel, the Bodleian Librarian, entitled ' Journael van de acht-jarige avon- 



' London, 4to. Reeve and Co., 1848. ' Vol. ix. p. 47 (1837). 



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