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different form, being slightly oblique upwards and backwards, while that of Zveron is more horizontal. 
This difference, however, is not greater than what prevails in the nostrils of other genera of pigeons. 
It appears then, that the only pots n which the Dodo can be said to differ materially 
from the type of the Pigeons, are few in number, and are not such as to make any approxi- 
mation to the Raptorial form ; and I think it will be granted that the numerous and important 
characters which have been above noticed, will warrant us in regarding the genus Dédus as a 
very aberrant member of the family Columbide. 
Postscript 1.—At pp. 25, 33, supra, | have inadvertently spoken of “the Gottorf Museum at Copen- 
hagen.” At the time when Olearius published his catalogue, this collection was not at Copenhagen, but at 
Gottorf, the seat of the Dukes of Schleswig; whence it was removed by Frederic LV., about 1720, to 
Copenhagen, and was incorporated with the Royal “ Kunstkammer ” in that metropolis. 
2. It has been suggested to me that translations of the Latin, French, Dutch, and German passages, 
extracted above (pp. 9-25), would be acceptable to many readers, and these are therefore given in the 
Appendix. 
