A FEW DODO QUERIES

The discovery and speedy extinction of that extraordinary bird the DODO, belongs rather to human history than to pure zoology, and I therefore hope that a few Queries relating to this curious subject will be admissible into your publication. I have already, in the work entitled *The Dodo and its Kindred*, and in the Supplementary notices inserted last year in the *Annals and Magazine of Natural History* (ser. 2. vol. iii. pp. 136, 259; vol. iv. p. 335), endeavoured to collect together the *omne scitum* of the Dodo-history, but I am satisfied that the omne scibile is not yet attained. *Query I*…