Fig. 3. Picture of the Dodo, by R. Savery, 1628, in the Imperial Collection of the Belvedere, Vienna. Each figure is coloured, and of the exact size, as in the original paintings. PLATE II. Two views of the Dodlet (_Didunculus strigirostris_, Peale; _Gnathodon_, Jardine), natural size, from the living bird, obtained at the Samoan or Navigators’ Islands, and transmitted from Sydney, New South Wales, by George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S.[48], to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, in 1864, where the paintings, of which the above are fac-similes, were made for the present work. A sketch of the dried head of the Dodo in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of rather less than half the natural size, is introduced into the picture, now in the Author’s possession[49]. PLATE III. Fig. 1. Side view of the skeleton of the Dodo (_Didus ineptus_, L.), with an outline of the bird as represented in the oil-painting presented to the British Museum by Edwards, Naturalist and Librarian of the Royal Society, into whose possession it came at the decease, in 1753, of Sir Hans Sloane, P.R.S., with the statement, or tradition, that the painting had been made, of the natural size, from a living specimen of the Dodo, in Holland. The bones represented in profile, of the natural size[50], testify to the accuracy of the form and proportions of the Dodo given in the painting. Fig. 2. An outline of the Samoan Dove or Dodlet (_Didunculus strigirostris_, Peale; _Gnathodon strigirostris_, Jardine[51]), of the natural size, from the specimen sent by Dr. G. Bennett, and living, in 1864, in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, with a view of the skeleton, corresponding with that of the Dodo. PLATE IV. Fig. 1. Front view of the fourth (or first of the three confluent) dorsal vertebræ (centrum and neural arch). Fig. 2. Vertebral rib, or pleurapophysis, of the same vertebra, front view. Fig. 3. Sternal rib, or hæmapophysis, of the same vertebra: _a_, outer side; _b_, upper or pleural end; _c_, lower or sternal end; _d_, front margin; _e_, inner surface. Fig. 4. Front view of sternum, or connate mass of hæmal spines, including that of the same (fourth dorsal) vertebra. Fig. 5. Inner surface of an anterior pleurapophysis, with coalesced appendage, _a_. Fig. 6. Oblique view of ditto, ditto.