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PLATE III. 
Fig. 1. Side view of the skeleton of the Dodo {Bidus ineptus, L.), with an outline of 
the bird as represented in the oil-painting presented to the British Museum 
by Edwards, Naturalist and Librarian of the Eoyal Society, into whose pos- 
session it came at the decease, in 1753, of Sir Hans Sloane, P.E.S., with the 
statement, or tradition, that the painting had been made, of the natural size, 
from a living specimen of the Dodo, in Holland. The bones represented in 
profile, of the natural size*, testify to the accuracy of the form and proportions 
of the Dodo given in the painting. 
Fig. 2. An outline of the Samoan Dove or Dodlet {Bidrmmlus strigirostris, Peale; 
Onathodon strigirostris, Jardine^), of the natural size, from the specimen sent 
by Dr. G. Bennett, and living, in 1864, in the Gardens of the Zoological Society 
of London, with a view of the skeleton, corresponding with that of the Dodo. 
PLATE IV. 
Fig. 1. Front view of the fourth (or first of the three confluent) dorsal vertebrse (centrum 
and neural arch). 
Fig. 2. Vertebral rib, or pleurapophysis, of the same vertebra, front view. 
Fig. 3. Sternal rib, or hsemapophysis, of the same vertebra: a, outer side; i, upper or 
pleural end ; c, lower or sternal end ; d, front margin ; e, inner surface. 
Fig. 4. Front view of sternum, or connate mass of haemal spines, including that of the 
same (fourth dorsal) vertebra. 
Fig. 5. Inner surface of an anterior pleurapophysis, with coalesced appendage, a. 
Fig. 6. Oblique view of ditto, ditto. 
Fig. 7. Anterior pleurapophysis, with appendage, a, front view : c, capitular end ; d, 
tubercular end ; f, haemal end ; 7 a, outer surface ; 7 b, inner surface. 
Fig. 8. An anterior pleurapophysis, front view. 
Fig. 9. Posterior surface of the upper end of a posterior pleurapophysis : 9 a, body and 
lower end of ditto. 
Fig. 10. Part of a pleurapophysis which has been broken and healed. 
Fig. 11. Lower end of a posterior dorsal pleurapophysis, with connate rudiment of 
appendage, a. 
Fig. 12. Hsemapophysis. 
* The scapular arch is rotated in advance of the ribs to show the character of the anterior dorsal vertebrae. 
* See also Gould, ‘ Birds of Austraha,’ part 22 (March, 1846). 
