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Dodo, General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History, 1911
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Dodo’s pleasure 🦤💗🍁☕️
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🦤 Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants &c. . London: Printed for author at the Royal Collage of Physicians, 1758-1764.
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Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences, 1835
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Head of a dodo, detail of illustration from Atlas de Zoologie, Paul Gervais, 1844.
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This naturalist plate by Ustad Mansor, from 1625, raised some eyebrows when it was discovered, as it is the oldest painting of a Dodo bird ever discovered, and one of only a few actually drawn from life, based on a living specimen. The Dodo, as we know, went extinct long before photography.
Drawn by the trained naturalist observers of the Mughal Court, it is most likely the most accurate representation of what a Dodo actually looked like in life, particularly with the very dark “hood,” which eyewitness reports described.