APPENDIX A. 
The White Dodo. 
Professor Newton's Remarks ‘ On a Picture supposed to represent 
the Didine Bird of the Island of Bourbon (Reunion).' 1 2 
Extract from Transactions of the Zoological Society, Feb. 14, 1867. 
PI. lxii. p. 373. 
It represents apparently a flooded meadow, in the pools of 
which various aquatic birds are distributed, while the Dodo is 
standing, with an expression of alarm on his countenance, on a 
scanty bit of dry ground. By his side is seated a fine Bernicla 
ruficollisp- somewhat too brilliantly coloured perhaps; and the 
other birds portrayed are Cepphus grylle 3 (engaged with a small 
eel or snake), Mergus castor 4 (a female or immature male), Ciconia 
alba, 5 Clangula glaucionp Fulix fuligula , 7 and Mareca penelope 8 
(a female). These are all drawn with much attention to detail, 
and generally very fairly coloured. The Dodo and the Goose 
form the principal figures in the composition. The beak of the 
Dodo, as represented here, also demands a word of comment; 
instead of terminating in the formidable hook to which we are 
accustomed in the pictures of the Saverys and that of Goeimare 
(Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 197), its tip is rounded off, as if it had 
undergone the operation known among falconers as ‘coping.’ 
Now I cannot help thinking that in this point we have some 
grounds for believing that the subject of the figure must have 
been a bird kept in captivity. The Dodo was no doubt able 
with its powerfully-hooked beak to inflict very serious injury, and 
1 A French translation of this paper, by M. Theo. Sauzier, is published 
for the Societe des Sciences et Arts de 1’Ile de la Reunion in 1890. 
2 Red-breasted Goose. 3 Black Guillemot. 4 Goosander. 
5 White Stork. 6 Golden-eye Duck. 7 Tufted Duck. 
8 Widgeon. All the above are birds found in Europe, and not one of 
them in the Mascarene Islands. 
