318 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



the fact, that in reality the IdlliDg of the Dodo is represented, 

 namely, in the left half of the lower horizontal section ! 

 The figure is very small, and therefore it must have escaped 

 the attention of the investigators. 



There is a communication in De Bry, 1601, that the 

 Dutchmen brought a living Dodo home. Later tliis tale 

 has been doubted. The representation of a Dodo, discovered 

 by Von Frauenfeld, 1868, in Vienna and attributed to Joris 

 Hoefnagel, is estimated variously to be of 1610 and 1626. 

 But we now know, by the recent researches of art critics, 

 that Hoefnagel died in August 1600 at Prague, where he 

 worked at the court of Rudolf II., who possessed there — 

 like the larger one in Vienna — a small "zoological garden." 

 Consequently the Dodo must have arrived there between 

 July 1599 (when five ships reached Amsterdam) and August 

 1600. At Prague there is still preserved a large portion of 

 the skull of thjtt Dodo. 



Roelandt Savery has immortalized at least eight different 

 Dodos on his paintings ; these are scattered over the whole 

 of Europe. Where did he paint them ? Where did those 

 Dodos live ? Noll, 1889, boldly and without any grounds, 

 tells us they were all painted at Vienna from one individual, 

 that lived there. At present we know that Savery^s paint- 

 ings representing Dodos were all made in or after 1626, and 

 that he lived from 1619 up to the time of his death in 1639 

 at Utrecht. Consequently those paintings were made in 

 Utrecht, or, if not in that town, then still in the Nether- 

 lands, from Dodos which lived there (e. g. Flushing, Vere, 

 Rotterdam, Amsterdam, or even in The Hague, for here also 

 was a little menagerie) . 



Cauche described (1651) a Dodo under the name of 

 " oiseau de Nazaret.^' The whereabouts of this islet was for 

 centuries unknown. But on certain old Portuguese maps 

 the " Ilha do Nazaret " is found mapped in the position 

 of an island now called '^Tromelin," lying to the north of 

 Mauritius. 



lu my work I have also made a list of representations 

 (figures, engravings, pictures, etc.) of the Dodo, 125 in 



