376 ME. A. NEAVTOX ON THE DIDIJvE BIED Ol" BOUEBON. 



year 1646, at Amsterdam, and the present di-awing were both taken from the same 

 source, probably a bird brought from the Island of Bourbon, and kept alive in tliat 

 town. 



From a recent paper by Mr. W. J. Sterland in a popular periodical* I learn that a 

 portion of the picture now exhibited f was copied and engra^'ed 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 ' Scieucc-Gossip,' No. 25, Jan. 1, 1867, pp. 5, 6. 



t P.S. April 1868. — The original picture, I am informed, has heen i-ecently deposited in a " museum " at 

 Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. 



