Postscript to Part I. 
Tue foregoing sheets had been printed some time, and the second part of this work had been unavoidably 
delayed by the great attention which the osteological plates and descriptions required, when I was led to 
some additional sources of information which demand notice. 
The first of these is a rare edition of Bontekoe’s Voyage, kindly communicated to me by Dr. Bandinel, 
the Bodleian Librarian, entitled “ Journael van de acht-jarige avontuerlijcke Reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz 
Bontekoe van Hoorn, gedaen nae Oost-Indien,” published in 4to at Amsterdam, by Gillis Joosten 
Zaagman. ‘There is no date, but from a narrative introduced at the end, it must be subsequent (probably 
only by a year or two) to 1646. The narrative is nearly a verbatim version of the other Dutch editions of 
Bontekoe (noticed at p.57 supra), and the only variation of text which concerns us, is in the statement 
that the underside of the Dodo dragged along the ground, which is here qualified thus :—“sleepte haer 
de neers 4y na (i.e. almost) langs de Aerde.”’ But what gives a peculiar interest to this volume is, that it 
contains (alone of all the editions of Bontekoe which I have seen) a figure of the Dodo, which I here 
present. 
This highly ludicrous representation is more like a Fighting-cock than a Dodo, and the black-letter 
of the Dutch text omits to tell us whether this design was due to the pencil of Bontekoe or his publisher 
Zaagman, or whether it was copied from some contemporary painting now forgotten. But there can be 
no doubt that this figure refers to the true Dodo of Mauritius, and not to the “Solitaire” of Bourbon, 
with which Bontekoe confounded it (see p. 58 supra). 
We may regret that the rudeness of the original woodcut leaves us in the dark as to the nature of the 
object on which the Dodo appears about to feed. This figure would pass equally well for a testaceous mollusc, 
or for an arboreal fruit, so that the problem of the Dodo’s food seems as far from a solution as ever. 
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