. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. d lies to the southward ofMauritius, had also an allied Bird, now dead and this not a relic has been handled by any latest description of it, by Du Bois in 1674, is * A second species now referred to Notomis is the QaUinula alba ofLatham, which lived on Lord Howes (and probably Norfolk) specimen is known to have been brought to Europe for more thaneighty years, and only one is believed to exist—namely, in tho nwiscvnnat Vienna (IbU, 1873, p. 44, plate 10). Recent enquirie
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. d lies to the southward ofMauritius, had also an allied Bird, now dead and this not a relic has been handled by any latest description of it, by Du Bois in 1674, is * A second species now referred to Notomis is the QaUinula alba ofLatham, which lived on Lord Howes (and probably Norfolk) specimen is known to have been brought to Europe for more thaneighty years, and only one is believed to exist—namely, in tho nwiscvnnat Vienna (IbU, 1873, p. 44, plate 10). Recent enquiries, made atthe present writers request, htive failed to furnish any result. Thebird is doubtless extinct. {Qf. Rowley, OmUAoJjogical UisceUany,PI- 38-48.) meagre in the extreme, and though two figures—one byBontekoo {circa 1646), and another by Pierre Witthoos{ob. 1693) have been thought to represent it { Soc. vi. p. 373, plate 62), their identification isbut conjectural Yet the existence of such a bird isindubitable. Far to the eastward of these two sister islands lies a.
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