136 Mr. H.E. Strickland on the Dodo and its Kindred. 



Stenopora. 



scahra (Rafin. sp.). Favosites id., Kon. Anim. Foss. Belg. 



C. SI. Hook; Clonea; Currens. 

 Strombodes {Lithostrotion, Lonsd.). 



emarciatum (Lonsd. sp.), Geol. lluss. and Ural. C. L. Derbyshire. 



ViNCULARIA. 



dichotoma (M'Coy), Syn. Carb. Foss. { ^; ^; ^S L^nfEnnl'skillen. 



megastoma (M'Coy), Syn. Carb. Foss. U. L. Killymeal. 



raricostata (M'Coy), Syn. Carb. Foss.' U. L. Killymeal, Dungannon. 



XIV. — Supplementary Notices regarding the Dodo and its Kindred. 

 Nos. 1, 3, 3. By H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S. 



One of the main objects which Dr. Melville and mj^self had in 

 view, in publishing our recent work on the Dodo and its Kindred, 

 was to draw the attention of others to this interesting historico- 

 physical investigation, and thus to elicit from all quarters such 

 additional items of information as had escaped our own research. 

 Many a curious scrap of Dodo-knowledge is doubtless still buried 

 in the holes and corners of hbraries, museums, and picture-gal- 

 leries, and many a precious bone-fragment still moulders in the 

 caverns and alluvions of the Mascarene Islands. Already, in the 

 short interval since our publication saw the light, have several 

 important links been added to the chain of evidence there dis- 

 played, — partly through the kind dihgence of our friends, and 

 partly by our own more recent researches. These supplementary 

 facts I propose to communicate from time to time to the ' Annals 

 of Natural History.^ 



1. Historical evidence of the Dodo. — I grieve to be obliged to 

 record that Oxford, the cradle of so much learning, now stands 

 convicted of having been the grave, not of one Dodo (as was 

 hitherto supposed), but of two. A small dingy MS. volume has 

 lately been purchased by the fellows of Queen^s College, Oxford 

 (I dare not say at what price), from Mr. Rodd the bookseller. This 

 precious but unattractive little book is the original autograph 

 diary of Thomas Crossfield, once fellow of Queen^s, and extends 

 over fourteen years, from 1626 to 1640. Amidst a variety of 

 matters, some of historical interest, and others '^ of no importance 

 to any but the owner," we find the following curious passage, 

 which was first detected, and kindly communicated to me, by the 

 Kev. Dr. Bliss. 



,. Page 68. "1634. Spectacula Oxonii in hoc anno. 

 i'(;:jl V. vi^ ^' The Palsgraves Family. 

 ■ ■ ^:,Hiiii3(„ 3. His ma^ies Hokus Pokus. 

 4 3. Dancing vpon the rope. 



4. Hierusalcm in its glory, destruction. 



