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adeoque multa ut tres quatuorve Drondes centenis soctis saturandis aliquando suffecerint. Si non probé 
elixentur, vel veteres sint, difficihoris sunt concoctionis, et salitee in penu reconduntur. 
Lapill diversze formee et magnitudinis, cinerei coloris, in yentriculo harum avium reperiuntur, non 
tamen ibi nati, ut vulgus et pubes nautica arbitratur, sed in littore devorati, quasi et hoc quoque signo 
cum Struthionis natura aves has participare constaret, quod durissima queeque deglutiant, nec tamen 
digerant.” 
The 13th historical testimony which I have to adduce is contained in a small tract in the 
Ashmolean Museum (Ashm. Printed Books, No. 967). Of this there are two editions, the 
first without date, and entitled “A Catalogue of part of those Rarities collected in thirty 
years time with a great deal of Pains and Industry, by one of his Majestie’s sworn Servants, 
R. H. alias Forges, Gentleman. They are to be seen at the place formerly called the Musique 
House at the West end of Pauls.” Here, among other rarities, we find at p. 11, “ A Dodo’s 
Leg, it is a bird that cannot flye.” The second edition is entitled, “A Catalogue of many 
natural rarities with great industry, cost, and thirty years travel in foraign Countries collected 
by Robert Hubert alias Forges, Gent. and sworn servant to his Majesty. And daily to be 
seen at the place formerly called the Music House near the West end of St. Paul’s Church.” 
12mo, London, 1665. At page 11 is the followmg entry: ‘A legge of a Dodo, a great 
heavy bird that cannot fly; it is a Bird of the Mauricius Island.” In all probability this is 
the same specimen that afterwards passed into the collection of the Royal Society, and is 
mentioned in the catalogue of their “ Natural and artificial Rarities,” published by Grew in 
1681, who thus describes it :— 
colnerlesiolsas Dod Oem memcnene The leg here preserved is covered with a reddish yellow scale. 
Not much above four inches long; yet above five in thickness, or round about the joynts: wherein 
though it be inferior to that of an Ostrich or Cassoary, yet joyned with its shortness, may render it of 
almost equal strength.”—p. 60. 
This specimen is now preserved in the British Museum, and I shall notice it hereafter under 
the head of Anatomical Evidences.' 
14. Olearius, in his Catalogue of the Gottorf Museum at Copenhagen, of which the first 
edition was published in 1666, enumerates, among other curiosities, a Dodo’s head. He also 
gives a figure of the bird in pl. 13, f. 5, which however is merely a copy from that of Clusius 
(p. 12, supra). The following are his words :— : 
“ Num. 5 ist ein Kopff von einem frembden Vogel welchen Clusius Gallum peregrinum, Nieren- 
bergius Cygnum cucullatum, die Hollander aber Walghvogel, vom Eckel den sie wegen des harten 
Fleisches machen sollen, nennen. Die Hollinder sollen zu erst solchen Vogel auff der Insel Mauritius 
angetroffen haben; sol auch keine Fliigel, sondern an dessen Stat zwo Pinnen haben, gleich wie die 
Emeu und Pinguinen. Clus. exot.”—Olearius, Gottorfische Kunstkammer. 4to, Schleswig. ed. of 1674. 
' Tt has been supposed that this is the same leg as that described by Clusius (supra, p. 16), but there are certain 
discrepancies in the measurements which render this doubtful. 
