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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Dididas. 
ClarKj George. Account of the late discovery of Doclos^ Re- 
mains in the Island of Mauritius. Ibis^ 1866^ pp. 141-146. 
(Translated in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1866, vi. pp. 19-24.) 
This discovery was briefly mentioned by us last year (Zool. 
Record, ii. p. 124). The attention of the author was first directed 
to the spot in September 1865; and by sending men to wade 
in the marsh called La Mare aux Songes,^'’ near Mahebourg, 
he obtained a very large number of bones. These, having been 
sent to England and Reunion, furnished the material of the 
researches of Prof. Owen, M. A. Milne-Edwards, and Messrs. 
Gervais and Coquerel, to be immediately mentioned. There was 
a larger proportion of tarso-metatarsi than of other bones ; next 
in quantity were tibiae and pelves, after which came femora. 
Sterna were fewer in number, but more numerous than humeri 
or coracoids, than which last also scapulae were more plentiful. 
Vertebrae were in considerable abundance; crania were very rare, 
and some perfect, but mandibulae in considerable numbers. 
Maxillae were extremely rare ; one coracoid was found entire 
with the furcula and scapula (all aijchylosed together), and 
several to which the last was attached. Of idnic and radii only 
four were found, and one metacarpus ; but this is not mentioned 
by Prof. Owen. With the Dodos^ bones were discovered those 
of tortoises, deer, pigs, and monkeys, besides those of several 
species of birds {^ide supra, Psittacidai) . The Mare aux Songes 
is a marsh of four or five acres, situated at the bottom of a 
ravine which drains some 200 acres. It is cut off from the sea 
by low sandhills and basaltic rocks. It is overspread with a 
luxuriant growth of vegetation, and the lands around it were 
covered with thick forests at the beginning of the present cen- 
tury. [Cf. Ibis, 1867, p. 128; Zoologist, S. S. pp. 97, 99.) 
Owen, Richard. Memoir on the Dodo {Didus inepius, Linn.), 
Avith an Plistorical Introduction by the late William 
John Broderip. London: 1866. 4to, pp. 55, pis. xii. 
This Avork, Avhich, Ave believe, has only been issued for ]U’ivate 
circulation, consists of three reprints (1) of the greater part of 
the article Dodo contributed by Broderip to the ^ Penny 
Cyclopjedia ■’ (vol. ix. pp. 47-55), (2) of two supplementary 
papers by the same Avriter in the ^ Transactions of the Zoological 
Society^ (vol. iv. pp. 183-186, and pp. 197-199), and (3) of a 
paper read by Prof. OAven, 9th Jan. 1866, which has since (1867) 
appeared in the same ^Transactions ^ (vol. vi. pp. 49-85). No 
reference is made to the additional evidence adduced by Strick- 
land in his Avell-known Avork (^ The Dodo and its Kindred,"’ 
London ; 1848) or elsewhere. The first and second portions 
of this memoir, having been originally published so long ago as 
1837 and 1859, we do not propose to remark on here; but we 
