The Hooded Dodo
The Hooded Dodo after Edwards from the John Wilkes Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1796. (via BibliOdyssey)
Update: the original image was removed.
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on Thursday, June 15th, 2006 at 5:24 pm in art, vintage by Bibi, the dodo.
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January 29th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
[...] From the John Wilkes Encyclopedia Londinensis 1796. Posted at The Dodo Blog » The Hooded Dodo From “Digging for Dodos” by Ian Parker (The New Yorker, January 22, 2007): A Mauritian told me that his elderly uncle still said how glad he was that dodos were wiped out, because they would have disturbed his flower beds and “crapped all over the lawn.” [...]
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