Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 22 THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE DODO. Perhaps there is no Vertebrated animal, which has existed since the wreck of the former world, whose history is involved in such obscurity as that of the Dodo. jMany have doubted that there ever was such a bird; but we hope to show that this is a mistake, although there is every reason to believe that it is now extinct. This bird has been variously designa<-ed by Naturalists, as the Dodar, Dldus, and Dodo; but the
Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 22 THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE DODO. Perhaps there is no Vertebrated animal, which has existed since the wreck of the former world, whose history is involved in such obscurity as that of the Dodo. jMany have doubted that there ever was such a bird; but we hope to show that this is a mistake, although there is every reason to believe that it is now extinct. This bird has been variously designa<-ed by Naturalists, as the Dodar, Dldus, and Dodo; but the accounts of its eai'liest describers are so ambiguous, and thoir charac- ters so ill defined, that there is much difficulty in tracing their specific distinctions. There appear to be three distinct representations of this species, which have not teen copied from each other; and although two of these are sufficiently rude, yet they bear evident traces of originality, and possess characters so peculiar, that their iden- tity cannot be mistaken. ^i^i^NSi^^i after quoting the accounts given of this kind by Clusius and Bontius, says, ' We have seen this bird dried, or its skin stuiFed, in Tradcscant's cabinet,' at Lambeth. The above figure is taken from a plate in the *'Exotica' of Clusius, published in IbOa. He says it was copied from a rough sketch in the journal of a Dutch voyager, who had seen the bird in the Moluccas, in the year 1598, Clusius says, that he had himself seen only a leg of the Dodo, in the house of Peter Pauw, a professor of me- dicine at Leyden, which was brought from Mam-itius. Clusius calls this bird ^^ Cal- lus pcn-r/rinus' and mentions that the Dutch sailors called it Walgh- Vogel, ^^ Nauseam 2ijove?is avis.'
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