Jolyon C. Parish

It may be added, for the benefit of any naturalist who, at some time or other, might turn his attention to the matter, that [John] Wolley was strongly of opinion that assiduously as Strickland had worked, the amount of information to be yet derived from a more extended research, such as would be afforded by several of our public and private libraries, was far from being exhausted – if, indeed, their dust did not still bury the knowledge of facts bearing on this remarkable group of extinct organisms far more interesting than any that had been resuscitated

(Newton 1909, p.159).

The following files comprise material relating to the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), extinct flightless pigeons (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands. They are available to download as pdf files.

The Dodologist’s Miscellany comprises: