mology of these names has been much discussed. That of the
latter, which has generally been adopted by German and French
authorities, seems to defy investigation, but the former has been
shown by Prof. Schlegel (_Versl. en Mededeel. K. Akad. Wetensch._ ii.
pp. 255 et seq.) to be the homely name of the dabchick or little
grebe (_Podiceps minor_), of which the Dutchmen were reminded by the
round stern and tail diminished to a tuft that characterized the
dodo. The same learned authority suggests that dodo is a corruption
of _Dodaars_, but, as will presently be seen, we herein think him
mistaken.

[2] What has become of the specimen (which may have been a relic of
the bird brought home by Van Neck's squadron) is not known. Broderip
and Dr Gray have suggested its identity with that now in the British
Museum, but on what grounds is not apparent.

[3] i.e. Rodriguez; an error.

[4] Hence we venture to dispute Prof. Schlegel's supposed origin of
"Dodo." The Portuguese must have been the prior nomenclators, and if,
as is most likely, some of their nation, or men acquainted with their
language, were employed to pilot the Hollanders, we see at once how
the first Dutch name _Walghvogel_ would give way. The meaning of
_Doudo_ not being plain to the Dutch, they would, as is the habit of
sailors, convert it into something they did understand. Then
_Dodaers_ would easily suggest itself.

[5] _The Dodo and its Kindred_, by H. E. Strickland and A. G.
Melville (London, 1848, 4to).

[6] _Neu aufgefundene Abbildung des Dronte_, by Georg Ritter von
Frauenfeld (Wien, 1868, fol.).

[7] E. Newton and H. Gadow, _Trans. Zool. Soc._ xiii. (1893) pp.
281-302, pls.

[8] _Voyage et aventures de Francois Leguat_, &c. (2 vols., London,
1708). An English translation, edited with many additional
illustrations by Captain Oliver, has been published by the Hakluyt
Society (2 vols., 1891).

[9] E. Newton and J. W. Clark, _Phil. Trans._ clix. (1869), pp.
327-362; clxviii. (1879), pp. 448-451.

DODONA, in Epirus, the seat of the most ancient and venerable of all
Hellenic sanctuaries. Its ruins are at Dramisos, near Tsacharovista. In
later times the Greeks of the south looked on the inhabitants of Epirus
as barbarians; nevertheless for Dodona they always preserved a certain
reverence, and the temple there was the object of fre