Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical timesRothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
Science
Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
Birds; Extinct birds
_No. 3._ Outline of Dodo in Jacob van Neck's Voyage, Plate 2 (1598).
_No. 4._ Outline of Roelandt Savery's Dodo, Vienna. Vide antea No. 4 in
the List of Paintings.
_No. 5._ Outline of Dodo in Broeck's Voyage (Peter van Broeck's Voyage,
1617).
_No. 6._ Outline of Dodo in Piso's additions to Jacob Bontiu's Oriental
Natural History, 1658.
_No. 7._ Outline of Dodo in Sir Thomas Herbert's Relation of some
yeares Travels, 1626.
_No. 8._ Outline of Dodo in Clusius Exoticorum libri decem, 1605.
_No. 9._ Outline of Dodo in Joan Nievhof's Gedenkwaerdige Zee and
Lantreize, 1682.
_No. 10._ Outline of Dodo in John Goeimare's picture at Sion House,
1627. Vide antea No. 3 in the List of Paintings.
_No. 11._ Outline of Dodo in Roelandt Savery's picture at
Pommersfelden. Vide antea No. 6 in the List of Paintings.
_No. 12._ Outline of Dr. H. Schlegel's restoration of the Dodo in
Transactions, &c., of the Amsterdam Academy, vol. 2, 1854.
_No. 13._ Outline of Dodo in Roelandt Savery's picture, Zoological
Society, London. Vide antea No. 5 in the List of Paintings.
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DIDUS SOLITARIUS (SELYS).
RÉUNION DODO.
(PLATES 25, 25A, 25B.)
_Great Fowl_ Tatton, Voy. Castleton, Purchas his Pilgrimes, ed. (1625)
I p. 331 (Bourbon or Réunion).
_Dod-eersen_ Bontekoe, Journ. ofte gedenck. beschr. van de Ost. Ind.
Reyse Haarlem (1646) p. 6.
_Oiseau Solitaire_ Carré, Voy. Ind. Or. I p. 12 (1699).
_Solitaire_ Voy. fait par Le Sieur D.B. (1674) p. 170.
_Apterornis solitarius_ de Selys, Rev. Zool (1848) p. 293.
_Didus apterornis_ Schlegel, Ook een Wordje over den Dodo p. 15 f. 2
(1854).
_Pezophaps borbonica_ Bp., Consp. Av. II p. 2 (1854).
_Ornithaptera borbonica_ Bp., Consp. Av. II. p. 2 (1854).
_Didine Bird of the Island of Bourbon_ (_Réunion_) A. Newt. Tr. Zool.
Soc. VI pp. 373-376, pl. 62 (1867).
_Apterornis solitaria_ Milne-Edw., Ibis (1869) p. 272.
_? Didus borbonica_ Schleg., Mus. P.B. Struthiones p. 3 (1873).
_Solitaire of Réunion_ A. Newton, Enc. Brit. II p. 732 (1875).
The Didine bird of Réunion was first mentioned by Mr. Tatton, the Chief
Officer of Captain Castleton, in his account of their voyage given in
Purchas his Pilgrimes. His account is as follows:--
"There is store of land fowle both small and great, plenty of Doves, great
Parrats, and such like; and a great fowle of the bignesse of a Turkie, very
fat, and so short winged, that they cannot fly, being white, and in a
manner tame: and so be all other fowles, as having not been troubled nor
feared with shot. Our men did beat them down with sticks and stones. Ten
men may take fowle enough to serve fortie men a day."
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