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Again, who would write the name of the Carthaginian queen, " Di Do ?" 

 It would be wrong to make two words of it. 



It appears to me that the ^^portingals," or Portuguese, hearing this 

 Pigeon cry ^^ Do-Do — Dodar/' so named it; and, in like manner, ^^Dronte" 

 may be a sound made with closed mandibles. That the Do Do did cry, we 

 have the testimony of Volguard Iversen, a Holsteiner, in a work published 

 first at Sleswig in 1669 (cf. Ibis, 1868, vol. iv. p. 479). He says that '^if 

 one caught a Dodo and held it by the leg, it cried out ; whereupon others 

 ran up to help the prisoner, and were themselves taken/' 



Perhaps the most quaint figure of the Do Do known, is the one in 

 Bontekoe's Voyage (cf. Strickland, p. 63^. 



Professor Newton (P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 333, 334) is stated to have exhibited 

 a small volume at the Meeting of the Zoological Society, April 4th, 1876, 

 '' belonging to the Rev. Richard Hooper, of Upton Rectory, near Didcot," 

 and lent by its owner. This book was published at Amsterdam by "Abraham 

 en Jan de Wees, Boek-verkoopers, inde 4 Evangeliste.'' "No year later 

 than 1643 is mentioned in it ; and the figure of the Dodo which it contains 

 (at p. 374) is unquestionably of cognate origin with that given in the rare 

 edition of Bontekoe's Voyage (p. 7). This edition is thought by Strickland 

 (' The Dodo ' &c. p. 63) to have been published ' a year or two ' subsequently 

 to 1646. Comparing the two figures now before you," says the Professor, 

 " I think you w^ill admit that the copperplate of the Pliny has not been copied 

 from the woodcut of the Bontekoe, but the woodcut from the copperplate ; 

 and if so, the impression in Mr. Hooper's Pliny is the earhest we yet know 

 of this very singular figure."*' 



The full name and title of "the Pliny " can be read, by those who desire 

 it, in the article itself. 



The large beak of the Do Do was a great puzzle to early investigators 

 of such things ; and in Edwards's painting the Great Blue-and-yellow Macaw 



