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The bones in question were obtained from a cavern in the Island of Eodriguez 
(Desjardins, Analyse des Travaux de la Soc. d’Hist. Nat. de ITle Maurice, 2*^® annee), and 
belong to the Solitaire {Pezophaps), a large extinct brevipennate bird, allied to the 
Dodo. The other evidences from remains, cited by Broderip, also relate to the Solitaire. 
Such Avas the history of the Dodo in 1837. 
In the following year I visited Holland, chiefly with a view to ascertain whether 
there might possibly be any remnant of the bird preserved in the Natural History 
Museums of that country, and to collect for my friend whatever other evidence, material, 
Avritten or pictorial, might have escaped his assiduous researches. 
My visits to the museums at Leyden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, and the Hague, during 
which I received every requisite aid from the accomplished Professors and Curators, 
Avere productive of only negative results. The little other information I was able to 
obtain was communicated to Mr. Broderip, who incorporated it in the following 
“ Supplement to his History.” 
“ Additional evidence relative to the Podo. By W. J. Bkodeeip, Bsy., F.B.S. 
“ The interest which attaches to any communication relative to an extinct, and, at 
one time, a doubted species, must be my apology for offering the following addition to 
the evidences of the existence and habits of the Dodo. 
“ My old and valued friend Professor Owen presented me, on his return from Holland 
some time since, with a short thick volume, bearing on its titlepage (not without black 
letter) the following promise : — 
“ ‘ C. Plinii Secundi Des wijdt-vermaerden Natuurkondigers vijf Boecken. 
Handelen van de Nature. 
I. Van de Menschen, 
II. Van de viervoetige en Kruypende Dieren. 
III. Van de Vogelen. 
IV. Van de Kleyne Beestjes of Ongedierten. 
V. Van de Visschen, Oesters, Kreeften, &c. 
“ ‘ Hier zijn by-gevoeght de Schriften van verscheyden andere oude Authueren de 
Natuur der Dieren aengaende. En nu in desen laetsen Druck wel het vierde part 
vermeerdert, uyt verscheyden nieuwe Schrijvers en eygen oudervindinge : en met veel 
Kopere Platen verziert t’Amsterdam, By Abeaham Wolfgaxgh, 1662.’ 
“ The frontispiece presents the artist’s notion of the Garden of Eden, with a very 
Dutch Adam and Eve, the latter with the apple in her hand, while the serpent twined 
round the tree looks sly and satisfied. Our first parents are surrounded by beasts, and 
in the foreground is represented a piece of water with waterfowl and ‘ ill-shaped fishes.’ 
“ The superscription is ‘ C. Plinius S. Van de Menschen, Beesten, Vogelen en Visschen.’ 
“ Mr. Strickland, in his elaborate work on ‘ The Dodo and its Kindred^,’ in which 
“ ^ London, 4to, Eeeve and Co., 1848.” 
