First published illustration of a dodo by van Neck, 1601

Facsimile of plate 2 of Jacob Cornelis van Neck's Voyage, 1601, showing Dutch sailors fishing on Mauritius, dodo bird (2) and extinct giant tortoise, Cylindras inepta (1). Lithograph from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville's The Dodo and its Kindred, London, Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1848

Cornelis Cucullatus Didus Dodo Facsimile Ineptus Kindred Mauritius Melville Raphus Strickland Tortoise

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