The Dodo A learned little article on " the Oxford
Dodo " appears in the summer number of Bird Notes and News, which is the journal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It ends with an allusion to the picture of the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland, and with a query. How. did Lewis Carroll, or Tenniel, come to know anything of that extinct bird ? I think I can answer the question, plausibly if not with certainty. There exist, qr did exist before the War, some very careful drawings of the Dodo made by Frank Buckland, that great naturalist who had many connexions with Christchurch. The drawings were the treasured possession of a small but historic debating society. Lewis Carroll, in- the person of the Reverend Charles Dodgson, was of course a student of Christ- church and not improbably saw. the drawings. In any case Tenniel's drawing, though imaginative enough, has too close a resemblance to the Dodo as reconstituted by Frank Buckland and others to have its- source merely in oral allusions, as the article suggests. It is the hig bird_ that disappears. We have lost our bustards from England as Mauritius has lost its Dodo,- but, fortiniate& The .bustard, unlike the Dodo, had
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