_Query III_.--Are there in existence any original oil-paintings of the Dodo by Savery or any other artist, besides the five described in the _Dodo and its Kindred_--viz., the one at the Hague, at Berlin, at Vienna, at the British Museum, and at Oxford? And are there any original engravings of this bird, besides that in De Bry, in Clusius, in Van den Broecke, in Herbert, in Bontekoc, and in Bontius, of all which I have published fac-similes? _Query IV_.--Are there any _original_ authors who mention the Dodo as a living bird, besides Van Neck, Clusius, Heemskerk, Willem van West-Zanen, Matelief, Van der Hagen, Verhuffen, Van den Broecke, Bontekoe, Herbert, Cauche, Lestrange, and Benjamin Harry? Or any authority for the _Solitaire_ of Rodriguez besides Leguat and D'Heguerty; or for the Dodo-like birds of Bourbon besides Castelton, Carré Sieur D.B., and Billiard? _Query V_--In Rees' _Cyclopæia_, article BOURBON, we are told that in that island there is "a kind of large bat, denominated _l'Oiseau bleu_, which are skinned and eaten as a great delicacy." Where did the compiler of the article pick up this statement? _Query VI_.--Is there in existence any figure, published or unpublished, of the Dodo-like bird which once inhabited the Isle of Bourbon? _Query VII_--What is the derivation or meaning of the words _Dodaers_ and _Dronte_, as applied to the Dodo? _Query VIII_.--Sir Hamon Lestrange has recorded that about 1638 he saw a living Dodo exhibited in London. (See _Sloane MSS_. 1839, v. p. 9. in Brit. Mus.; Wilkin's ed. of _Sir T. Browne's Works_, vol. i. p. 369.; vol. ii, p. 173.; _The Dodo and its Kindred_, p. 22.) Is there any contemporary notice extant in print or in MS. which confirms this statement? A splendidly bound copy of _The Dodo and its Kindred_ will be given to any one who can answer this query affirmatively. _Query IX_.--In Holme's _Academy of Armory and Blazou_, Chester, 1688, p. 289, we find a Dodo figured as an heraldic device, a fac-simile of which is given in the _Annals of Natural History_, 2nd series, vol. iii. p. 260. The author thus describes it: "He beareth Sable a _Dodo_ or _Dronte_ proper. By the name of _Dronte_. This exotic bird doth equal a swan in bigness," &c. &c. Now I wish to ask, where did this family of _Dronte_ reside? Is anything known concerning them? How did they come by these arms? and are any members of the family now living? _Query X._--From a passage in the _Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences_, 1776, p. 37, it appears that Pingré the French astronomer, published, or at least wrote, a relation of his voyage to Rodriguez, in which he speaks of _Solitaires_. Is this the fact? and if so, what is the title of his work? H.E. STRICKLAND. * * * * * ON PASSAGES IN COLERIDGE'S CHRISTADEL AND BYRON'S LARA. TABLET TO NAPOLEON.