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Henceforth Dutch narrators, though several times mentioning 
the bird, fail to supply any important fact in its history. Their 
navigators, however, were not idle, and found work for their 
naturalists and painters. Clusius says that in 1605 he saw at 
Pauw’s House in Leyden a Dodo’s foot,! which he minutely de- 
scribes. Of late years a copy of Clusius’s work has been discovered 
in the high school of Utrecht, in which is pasted an original draw- 
ing by Van de Venne, reproduced in fac-simile by Herr H. C. 
Millies in 1868, and superscribed “ Vera effigies huius avis Walgh- 
vogel (que & a nautis Dodaers propter foedam posterioris partis 
crassitiem nuncupatur) qualis viua Amsterodamum perlata est ex 
Insula Mauritii, Anno M.DC.XXVI.” Nowa good many paint- 
ings of the Dodo by a celebrated artist named Roelandt Savery, 
who was born at Courtray in 1576 and died in 1639, have long 
been known, and it has always been understood that these were 
drawn from the life. Proof, however, of the limning of a living 
Dodo in Holland at that period had hitherto been wanting. There 
can now be no longer any doubt of the fact; and the paintings by 
this artist of the Dodo at Berlin and Vienna—dated respectively 
1626 and 1628—as well as the picture by Goiemare, belonging to 
the Duke of Northumberland, at Sion House, dated 1627, may be 
with greater plausibility than ever considered portraits of a captive 
bird. It is even probable that this was not the first example 
which had sat to a painter in Europe. In the private library of 
the late Emperor Francis of Austria is a series of pictures of 
various animals, supposed to be by the Dutch artist Hoefnagel, 
who was born about 1545. One of these represents a Dodo, and, 
if there be no mistake in Von Frauenfeld’s ascription, it must 
almost certainly have been painted before 1626, while there is 
reason to think that the original may have been kept in the 
vivarium of the then Emperor Rudolf II, and that the portion of 
a Dodo’s head, which was found in the Museum at Prague about 
1850, belonged to this example. The other pictures by Roelandt 
Savery, of which may be mentioned that at the Hague, that-in the 
minor, of which the Dutchmen were reminded by the round stern and tail dimin- 
ished to a tuft that characterized the Dodo. The same learned authority 
suggests that Dodo is a corruption of Dodaars, but, as will presently be seen, 
we herein think him mistaken. The latter of the two names, which has been 
naturalized in France as Dronte, as Dr. Jentink has kindly suggested to me, may 
be from the obsolete Dutch verb dronten (cognate with drenten and drinten), to be 
swollen (cf. Verwijs and Verdam, Middelnederlandsch Woordenbock, ii. col. 435), 
and would indicate the Dodo’s figure as represented by some draughtsmen, and as 
described by Herbert. 
1 What became of the specimen (which may have been a relic of the bird 
brought home by Van Neck’s squadron) is not known. Broderip and the late 
Dr. Gray suggested its identity with that now in the British Museum, but on 
what grounds is not apparent. 
