82 Drawings on Exhibition at Camirridc/t 



Drawings. 



H. Schlegel. Tracings of drawings by an unknown artist 

 who must lia ve been on board one of Wolphart Har- 

 manszooirs ships when they touched at Mauritius. The 

 originals were found by Dr. Tiele in a MS. narrative of 

 the voyage (1601-1603), in the library of the church of 

 the Remonstrants at Rotterdam, whence it has since 

 been transferred to the Archives at the Hague. The 

 tracings represent Aphanapteryx, Didus (several figures), 

 Erythrcena nitidissima and Lophopsittaeus, two of which 

 aro reproduced in the "Dictionary of Birds," (pp. 156, 

 216). (See also Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 347.) 



,, „ The figure (Collaert's) of the "Géant" from 



Leguat's work enlarged as a lecture diagram with Prof. 

 Srhlegers interpretation of it. 



[Hung on the wall.] 



Joseph Wolf. Sketch of Anser erythropus, I860. 



„ ,, Studies of Otis tarda. 



Photograph. 



The natural mummy of Alca impenni* found on Funk 

 Island in 1863 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 435), subsecpiently 

 dissected by Prof. Owen, and the subject of his memoir in 

 the "Transactions of the Zoological Society/"" 



Specimens Showing Webbed Feet in Pigeons. 

 Exhibited by P. Staples Browne, Esq. 



The webbed foot behaves as a recessive to the normal foot. 



The specimens in the bottle show webbed feet of birds 

 bred from the mating together of two birds of F.l. generation. 

 'Small feet, Nos. 1, 2, 3.) 



