Ysbrantsz Bontekoe van Room, gcdaen nac Oost-Indicn. 4to. Amsterdam, by Gillis Joosten Zaagman.
No date.—(French) in TJievenol's Eclations de divers Voyages curieux. Paris, 1663, vol. 1.— (German) in
Hulsius, Vier und zwanzigstc SchhTart. 4to. Francfort, 1648. p. 7.
*1668. (Oiseau Solitaire)—CARRE (M.) Voyages des Indes Orientales. 2 vols. lSmo. Paris, 1699; vol. 1. p. 12.
—Prévost, Hist. gén. des Voyages, vol. 9. p. 3.
*1669. (Solitaire et Oiseau bleu)—1). 1?. (Sieur). MS. Journal in Library of Zoological Society.—Proceedings of
Zool. Soc. pt. 12. p . 77.
*1819. (Oiseau bleu)—REES (A.) Cyclopoedia, art. " Bourbon."
*1829. (Dronte ou Solitaire)—BILLIARD (A.) Voyage aux Colonics Orientales, ou lettres écrites des Isles de
France et de Bourbon, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819, et 1820. Svo. Paris, 1829, p. 261.
*1844. (Solitaire and Oiseau bleu)—STRICKLAND (H. E.) On the evidence of the former existence of Strutluous
Birds distinct from the Dodo in the islands near Mauritius ; in " Proceedings of the Zoological Society
of London," part 12. p. 78.
L I S T O F P L A T E S.
PLATE 1. — Frontispiece.—Fac-simile of Roland Savory's figure of the DODO in his picture of the Fall of Adam, in
the Royal Gallery at Berlin.
PLATE II. p. 9.—Fac-simile of Plate 2 of the French edition of Van Neck's Voyage, fol. Amsterdam, 1601. This
plate is copied by De Bry, and other editors of Van Neck. The DODO, at Fig. 2, is also introduced by
Dc Bry into the ornamental title-page of his India Oricntalis, Pars V.
PLATE III. p. 30.—Fac-simile of Roland Savery's picture of the DODO in the Belvedere at Vienna.
PLATE III.* p. 46.—View of the Island of Rodriguez, looking South.
PLATE IV. p. 48.—Fac-simile of the Frontispiece of Lcguat's Voyage.
PLATE IV.* p. 50.—View of Port Mathurin, Rodriguez, looking West.
Plates II., III., III.*, IV., and IV.*, are examples of various applications of Anastatic Fruiting. Plate II. is a far-simile of an engraving
executed by tracing the original, line for line, with a steel pen, lithographic ink, and tracing paper. The drawing is then transferred,
by the Anastatic process, to a plate of zinc, and printed from ns in ordinary zincography or lithography. Plate IV. is
executed in the same way as Plate II., except that its details arc copied by the eye instead of being traced. Plates III., III.*
and IV.*, arc examples of a new art to which I have given the name of Papyrographg, (See Athe/iarttm, Feb. 1 2 , 1848.) It
consists in drawing on paper with lithographic chalk, and in transferring the drawings, so made, to a plate of zinc, by the
Anastatic process. These drawings, when printed, bear a close resemblance to lithographs, and enable an artist or a traveller by
merely using lithographic chalk instead of a lead pencil, to print and publish his original sketches (without redramag or
reteraing), at any interval of time. For Plate III." and IV.* I am indebted to E. Higgin, Esq., of Liverpool, who sent the
drawings by post to Oxford, where they were transferred and printed by Mr. P. H. Delamottc.—H. E. S.
PLATE V.
Fig. 1. Side view of the head of the DODO, with the dried skin, from the unique specimen in the Ashmolean Museum
at Oxford.
Fig. 2. Side view of the head of the DODO, restored chiefly from the celebrated picture, presented by Edwards to the
British Museum. The great development of the cere, the tubular nostril opening forwards, the form
and abrupt termination of the horny sheaths which have disappeared in Fig. 1, the extent of the gape,
and the caruncular folds at the base of the upper gnathotheca, on the forehead, and extending from the
angle of the mouth, arc well exhibited.
PLATE VI.
Front, side, and back views of the leg of the DODO, in the British Museum. These two plates were executed
for that valuable work, the " Genera of Birds," by Messrs. G. R. Gray, and D. W. Mitchell, who have
obligingly allowed us the use of them.
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