ORNITHOLOGY IN 1851. 
Another important discovery, or rather re-discovery, has been 
made in the stores of the Zoological Society. When Mr. Strickland 
was working at the “ Dodo and its Kindred.” The bones which 
Mr. Telfair had procured from the island of Rodriguez, and pre- 
sented to the Society, could not be found. Like many other valu- 
ables, they had been put too carefully past. Lately, however, they 
have been re-discovered by Mr. Bartlet, and have been again laid 
before the meetings of the Society. These will very probably be 
figured in their Transactions ; and they are now intrusted to the 
care of Mr. Strickland, from whom we hope to have a detailed 
account of their relations. lie writes, “ I am of opinion, that they 
belong to two species, a larger and smaller. The larger I consider 
to be the Solitaire of Leguat, and I call it Pezophaps solitaria ; the 
smaller one P. minor. From the disparity in size, we believe they 
will have belonged to more than one species of Didiform bird. 
Our notices of Scolopax brehmi have again attracted the sports- 
men, and by the attention of Captain Robertson, 31st Regiment, we 
have lately received two specimens, shot in the vicinity of Bally- 
shannon, having sixteen feathers in the tails, the exterior rectrices 
being slightly lengthened. They are extremely close, in other re- 
spects, to the common form of Snipe, but shew the greater degree of 
mottling on the inner webs of the quills, and the greater extent of 
white upon the tips of the secondaries alluded to — “ Contributions” 
1850, p. 17. 
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