Chester Zoo Game

I'll have a look at that.

And I have just realised that 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown is not actually the same as Countdown!

It is not! Channel 4 did an special anniversary evening with the casts of some of their shows swapped around for comedy value - this particular combination was so popular that they kept making it!
 
This species is named after a surgeon who presented the bones of an extinct bird, the Rodrigues solitaire, to the Zoological Society of London in 1831.
 
This species is named after a surgeon who presented the bones of an extinct bird, the Rodrigues solitaire, to the Zoological Society of London in 1831.
Oplurus cuvieri, the Cuvier's Madagascar swift, otherwise known as the Madagascar spiny-tailed iguana or collared iguana.
 
This species is named after a surgeon who presented the bones of an extinct bird, the Rodrigues solitaire, to the Zoological Society of London in 1831.

Should be the lesser hedgehog tenrec, named after Charles Telfair.

A bit of a pity this answer can be googled ;)
 
I think that Cuvier would most likely have given any bones to Paris Museum, not ZSL.
Turns out I was close with Madagascar.

Lesser hedgehog tenrec, E. telfairi, named after Telfair who presented ZSL with a large array of bones from Rodrigues, including the solitaire bones
 
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