376 MR. A. NEWTON ON THE DIDINE BIRD OF BOURBON. 
year 1646, at Amsterdam, and the present drawing were both taken from the same 
source, probably a bird brought from the Island of Bourbon, and kept alive in that 
town. 
From a recent paper by Mr. W. J. Sterland in a popular periodical* I learn that a 
portion of the picture now exhibited + was copied and engraved some years ago in the 
‘Illustrated London News’ (no. 821, vol. xxix. p. 303, Sept. 20, 1856). On referring 
to the place indicated I find that the woodcut there given is a most wretched misre- 
presentation, while the accompanying notice by Mr. W. W. Coker and Mr. Gould does 
not at all bear upon the subjects to which I have here adverted. 
* Hardwicke’s ‘ Science-Gossip,’ No, 25, Jan. 1, 1867, pp. 5, 6. 
+ P.S. April 1868.—The original picture, I am informed, has been recently deposited in a “museum” at 
Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. 
