PIDINiE. 
Note. - To this subfamily belongs Mr. Strickland’s genus Pezoptiaps, which is founded on the Solitaire or Didus 
soUtarrus of Gmelin; but, as no recent portion of this bird is now known to exist, I have not mserted b 
body of the work. Those readers who may require an account of this new genus had best refer to the elaborate wo 
of Messrs. Strickland and Melville on the « Dodo and its Kindred,” wherein they will find its history, as far as can be 
gathered from the old works, and also a lengthened description and figures of those bones that are at present known 
collections. 
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