Dp Oey 03 
OR DERIVE OS RoW Er ree Us: 
GEnus) LX). SDs D: iO; 
Didus ineptus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 662. t. 
Cygnus cucullatus, Dodo, Grew. Mu/. p. 60. Jaf? Paragr.—Nat. oe vol. 
iv. pl. 143. the leg.—Id. vol. v. pl. 166. the head. 
Dodar from the Ifland of Mauritius, Muf Tradc/. p. 4. 
Hooded Dodo, Gen. Syz. v. p. 1. pl. 70. 
O fewer than three fpecies of this genus have been enumerated 
by authors, but all of them do not reft upon the fame authority 
as the Hooded one, of which feveral have been formerly met with in 
the ifland of Mauritius, from undoubted teftimony of authors*. Ed- 
wards’s figure of it, which is confefledly the beft, was copied from a 
picture drawn from the living bird brought from S¢. Maurice’s Iland. 
Dr. Grew, who enumerates the leg of one of thefe among other trea- 
fures of the Briti/b Mu/feum, fufficiently defcribes this part, but it is to 
Dr. Shaw that we owe a figure of it, being the very one mentioned by 
Grew; and befides, has alfo favoured the world with the head of the 
bird in queftion, which, with a leg of the fame, now exifts in the 
Afomolean Mufeum at Oxford; but if we miftake not, a fpecimen of 
the whole bird muft have been in the mufeum of John Tradefcant, as 
fuch an one is recorded under the name of Dodar, as compofing part 
of that curious man’s collection at South Lambeth +. In a late hiftory 
of 
* Compare notes on thefe birds in Journ. de Phyfigue, t. xii. p. 154 & feq. 
+ The Mifeum Tradejcantianum was publifhed in 1656. As to the ifland of Maz- 
ritius, Where thefe birds are faid to be found, it went by the name of Cerne or Swan 
9 ifland, 
