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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS IN ORIGINAL EDITION
- ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
- Voyage from Rodriguez to Mauritius; Adventures in that Island, Java, and at the Cape of Good Hope
- Thanksgiving Hymn
- APPENDIX A Abstract of M. J. Codine's Mémoire on the Discovery of the Mascarene Islands
- ADDENDUM.—On M. de Flacourt's Pillar
- ADDENDUM.—List of Bourbon Birds
- APPENDIX B Relation de l'Ile Rodrigue
- APPENDIX C The Fauna of the Mascarene Islands
- APPENDIX D On Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands
- APPENDIX E The Gigantic Mascarene Tortoises
- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE by E. Delmar Morgan.—The Dugong, Halicore Dugong, Leguat's “Manati”
- INDEX
APPENDIX D - On Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS IN ORIGINAL EDITION
- ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
- Voyage from Rodriguez to Mauritius; Adventures in that Island, Java, and at the Cape of Good Hope
- Thanksgiving Hymn
- APPENDIX A Abstract of M. J. Codine's Mémoire on the Discovery of the Mascarene Islands
- ADDENDUM.—On M. de Flacourt's Pillar
- ADDENDUM.—List of Bourbon Birds
- APPENDIX B Relation de l'Ile Rodrigue
- APPENDIX C The Fauna of the Mascarene Islands
- APPENDIX D On Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands
- APPENDIX E The Gigantic Mascarene Tortoises
- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE by E. Delmar Morgan.—The Dugong, Halicore Dugong, Leguat's “Manati”
- INDEX
Summary
A valuable paper was contributed, 31st October 1857, to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam (Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling “Natuurkunde”, vol. vii, p. 116, which was originally written in Dutch; but a translation into German of part of it appeared in the Journal für Ornithologie for 1858) by Professor H. Schlegel, the Director of the National Museum of the Netherlands, “On Extinct Gigantic birds of the Mascarene Islands.” The translation of Schlegel's paper by Mr. Hessels was forwarded by Professor Newton of Cambridge to Dr. Sclater for reproduction in the pages of the Ibis, where it appeared in April 1866, shortly after the discovery of the Didine remains near Mahebourg. (Vide Ibis, New Series, vol. i, pp. 146-168.)
Professor Schlegel announced that hitherto the recent investigations respecting the large birds which had become extirpated in Bourbon, Mauritius, and Rodriguez had entirely overlooked some species, one of which, in height at least, equalled the African Ostrich, and which did not belong to the Dodos, but to quite another order of birds.
“Remains of these birds have not hitherto been found; but we know them from descriptions and a representation, which perhaps may, if rightly understood, give a better and more complete idea of these beings than the obscure sketch which can be obtained of the New Zealand Moas through their numerous remaining bones.[…]”
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- The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good HopeTranscribed from the First English Edition, pp. 359 - 372Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1891