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a chimney in the chamber there lay an heap of large pebble stones whereof hee gave it 
many in our sight, some as big as nutmegs, and the keeper told us shee eats them (con- 
ducing to digestion) and though I remember not how farre the keeper was questioned 
therein yet I am confident that afterwards she cast them all agayneh’ 
“ Evidence arising from Eemains. — The only existing recent remains attributed to the 
Dodo are, a leg (fig. 4) in the British Museum, and a head (fig. 3) (a cast of which is in 
the British Museum), and a leg in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the relics most 
probably of Tradescant’s bird. Whether the leg formerly in the museum of Pauw be 
that at present in the British Museum may be, perhaps, doubtful, though we think with 
Mr. Gray that they are probably identical ; but that the specimen in the British Museum 
did not belong to Tradescant’s specimen is clear, for it existed in the collection belonging 
to the Eoyal Society when Tradescant’s ‘ Dodar’ was complete. 
In the ‘ Annales des Sciences’ (tome xxi. p. 103, Sept. 1830) will be found an account 
of an assemblage of fossil bones, then recently discovered, under a bed of lava, in the 
Isle of France, and sent to the Paris Museum. They almost all belonged to a large 
living species of land-tortoise, called Testudo indica, but amongst them were the head, 
sternum, and humerus of the Dodo. ‘ M. Cuvier,’ adds Mr. Lyell in his ‘ Principles of 
Geology,’ • showed me these valuable remains at Paris, and assured me that they left no 
doubt in his mind that the huge bird was one of the gallinaceous tribe^.’ ” 
Hoad of Dodo (specimen in the Oxford Museum), one-third nat. size. 
Fig. 4. 
Foot of Dodo (specimen in the British Museum), one-third nat. size. 
“ * This curious statement is extracted in the recent edition of Sir Thomas Brown’s works by "Wilkins : pub- 
lished by Pickering.” [8vo, 1836, vol. i. p. 369, vol. ii. 173. The reference, in Strickland {op. cit. p. 22), to 
vol. i. p. 369, is to a Letter by Sir Hamon L’Estrange to Dr. Browne, not containing any allusion to the 
Dodo. — E. 0.] 2 Art. Dodo, Penny Cyclopaedia, vol. ix. p. 52 (1837). 
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