THE DODO, ETC. 
some other brevipennate birds do still exist. A second species of 
Apteryx has been discovered in New Zealand ; and a late letter 
from a correspondent to Mr. Blyth in Calcutta, mentions, that 
A. owenti was so abundant in some parts of the Middle Island, 
as to have served the party for food; if any settlement should 
take place there, the speedy extirpation of a creature so helpless 
may be predicted. Extracts from the letters of Mr. M‘Gillivray, — 
published in our last part, mention the discovery of a Cassowary : 
on the north-east coast of Australia, a district hitherto very little 
explored; and traces of the existence of a large wingless bird in 
the interior of Madagascar, have reached this country, in accounts 
from the natives, of their being hunted down with dogs, which the 
information collected by Mr. Surtees, printed in the Annals of 
Natural History, as well as the notices from the Mauritian Gazette, - 
which we now also print, tend to confirm. 
The following additional remains of parts of the Dodo and Soli- 
taire have come to light since the publication of the “ Dodo and its 
Kindred,” and have been noticed from time to time in the “ Annals.” 
Mr. Strickland convicts Oxford of having been the grave of two 
Dodos. In the original autograph diary of Thomas Crossfield, 
extending from 1626 to 1640, is the following curious passage :— 
“ 1634, SPECTACULA OXONII 1N HOC ANNO. 
“The story divided into 5 or 6 parts, invented by Mr. Gos 
ling, sometime schollar to Mr. Camden, enginer, who bestowed the 
Dodar, a black Indian bird, vpon y* Anatomy Schoole. His 
wife dying, left him some meanegs in a chest, woh a maide servant, 
cunningly getting ye key of her master, conveyed away, and soe he 
now glad to get his livinge by ysing his wits for such inventions.’ 
The Ashmolean Dodo was in Tradescant’s private collection 
Lambeth in 1656, and was not transferred to Oxford until 1683. 
Two Dodos have therefore existed at successive periods in the 
venerable repositories of Oxford University. 
The officers of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of 
Mauritius, discovered in the cabinets of their museum, two bone 
which they have, with praiseworthy liberality, sent to Europ 
They belong not to the true Dodo, but to the longer legge! 
species, the Solitaire, which inhabited the island of Rodrigue” 
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