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DiDUNCULIDiB/ 
Didunculus striyirostris : notes on this species, with a figure from a photo- 
graph of the living bird. The former contain nothing that has not been 
printed elsewhere. W. Denison, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxxiii. pp, 373, 374, tab. 
Its egg mentioned, A. Newton, P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 256. 
DididvE. 
Newton, Alfred. On some recently discovered Bones of the 
largest known species of Dodo (Didus nazarenus, Bartlett) . 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 199-201, pi. viii. ; Ann. & Mag. 
N. H. 3rd ser. xvi. pp. 61-63. 
The specimens were a tarso-metatarsus and a humerus, found 
by the author^s brother and Capt. Barclay in Bodriguez (Ibis, 
1865, p. 152). They are referred to Didus nazarenuSj Bartlett 
(P. Z. S. 1851, p. 284), nec Gmelin, and are figured, 
. On a remarkable Discovery of Pidine Bones in Rodri- 
guez. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 715-718. 
The announcement of the discovery was first made to the 
British Association at Birmingham, 11 Sept. (Ibis, 1865, p. 551). 
The specimens, eighty-one in number,ii were sent to the au- 
thor's brother by Mr. George Jenner, of Bodriguez. They are 
remains of no less than sixteen or seventeen individuals, all appa- 
rently of one species but of two sizes, the very marked difference 
in this respect being probably owing to sex. Among them are 
examples of the upper end of the tibia, portions of the sacrum 
^nd coracoid, ulna, radius, and digital phalanx, which have not 
before been discovered. The author now thinks that all these 
(together with the bones previously found in the same island) 
belong to the Didus or Pezophaps solitarius of Strickland, and 
that the D. nazarenus, Bartlett (P. Z. S. 1851, p. 284), cannot 
be accounted a good species. From the extraordinary dis- 
proportion in the size of the specimens, he suggests that the 
Solitaire may have been polygamous in its habits. All the 
bones appear to have been those of birds eaten by men or pre- 
datory animals. 
Pezophaps solitarius, a metatarsus exhibited. G. Lunel, Bull. Soc. Orn. 
Suisse, 1865, p. 150. 
Didus ineptus. Interesting discovery of its remains in Mauritius by Mr. 
George Clark. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 732. (Further details are given, Ibis, 1866, 
pp. 128 and 141-146. Nearly all the bones of the skeleton have been reco- 
vered and were described by Prof. Owen before the Zoological Society, 9 Jan. 
1866, and some by M. A. Milne-Edwards before the Acad($jnio des Sciences, 
23 April, 1866.) 
