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Title: The dodo and its kindred; or, The history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Strickland, H. E. (Hugh Edwin), 1811-1853 Melville, Alexander Gordon, joint author
Subjects: Dodo Solitaire (Bird) Extinct birds Paleontology
Publisher: London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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but hugged the African Coast as far as Melinda)and then crossed to India, returning by the same route. This small island inhabited by Penguins, near the Capeof Good Hope, has been gratuitously confounded with Mauritius. Dr. Hamel, in a Memoir in the Bulletin de laClause Physico-matldmatique de VAcad, de St. Petersbourg, vol. iv. p. 53, has devoted an unnecessary amount oferudition to the refutation of this obvious mistake. He shews that the name Solitaires, as appKed to Penguins byDe Gamas companions, is corru))ted from Sotilicairos, which appeals to be a Hottentot word. - Ersch and Grubers Encyclopadie. • Grants Mauritius. ■* Penny Cyclopedia. * Du Quesne in Leguats Aoyage, on the authority of a stone pillar, placed in Bourbon by the Portuguese. •> In one of De Brys maps, which Ulustrates ^q first Dutch expedition of 1595-1597, these islands areindicated as I. de Mascarenhas. Piatt 11 f.:) Comment nous avons (sur flsle Maurice, autrement nommee do Cerne) tenu mesmge. No. 2.
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Fac-smdle of Plate 2 of TanISTeclis Voyage. Ch. I.) OF THE DODO. 9 1. In the published naiTativc of this Voyage,^ it is stated that they found in the islanda variety of pigeons, parroquets, and other birds, among which were some which they deno-minated Walchvogel, the size of swans, with a large head furnished with a kind of hood; nowings, but in place of them three or four small black quUls; and the taU consisted of four orfive curled plumes of a grey colour. The Dutch sailors called them Walckvoyel, or dugmtinijbirds, from the toughness of their flesh, as might be expected in the strongly developed cruralmuscles of a cm-sorial bird, though they found the pectoral muscles more palatable. Theample supply of turtle-doves also caused the Walckvogel to be the less esteemed. The following is De Brys version of this account, and in cases where the French transla-tion (Amsterdam, 1601) differs in sense, the latter is quoted also: Insula dicta praeterquam quod terrse nascentibus feracissima

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