EditorialDidus cucullatus. Dodo. Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times-that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, bu...
EditorialNorthern cassowary, Casuarius unappendiculatus, and extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History, Augsburg, Germany, 1794. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian cle...
EditorialEagle, Aquila chrysaetos, and extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Woodblock engraving from an English translation of Buffon's Natural History, London, circa 1800.
EditorialSouthern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable), and dodo, Raphus cucullatus (extinct). Handcoloured lithograph by Bretzing from an illustration by Ludwig Meyer from Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen's Handbook of Natural History for Children, Berlin, Ame...
EditorialDodo, Raphus cucullatus, extinct flightless bird. Copperplate engraving by T. Milton after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from Abraham Rees' Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary, London, 1820.
EditorialThe Round Crested Duck (Mergus cucullatus). Dated: published 1731-1743. Dimensions: plate: 26.4 x 35.2 cm (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.9 x 51.1 cm (14 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialThe Round Crested Duck (Mergus cucullatus). Dated: published 1731-1743. Dimensions: plate: 26.4 x 35.2 cm (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.9 x 51.1 cm (14 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialHooded Merganser, Sawmill (Mergus cucullatus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, Lithograph, Pl. 413 (Vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in the United States an...
EditorialThe extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus (Didus ineptus), exterminated in the 17th century. Dutch sailors killing dodos with cudgels and dragging them to a boat. Print after an illustration by Joseph Smit from Henry Neville Hutchinsons Creatures of Other Da...
EditorialNorthern cassowary, Casuarius unappendiculatus, and extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History, Augsburg, Germany, 1794. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian cle...
EditorialHooded Merganser, Sawmill (Mergus cucullatus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, Lithograph, Pl. 413 (Vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in the United States an...
EditorialMergus cucullatus, Print, The hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a species of small duck. It is the only extant species in the genus Lophodytes. The genus name derives from the Greek language: lophos meaning 'crest', and dutes meaning diver. T...
EditorialDidus ineptus, Print, The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest genetic relative was the also-extinct Rodrigues solitaire, the two ...
EditorialExtinct flightless bird, the Dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Woodblock engraving from Die Illustrirte Welt (The Illustrated World), Stuttgart, Germany, 1857.
EditorialDodo, Raphus cucullatus, and Martinique macaw, Ara martinicus, from a painting in the British Museum. Woodcut based on the painting by Roelant Savery in The Penny Magazine, London, June 1, 1833.
EditorialDidus cucullatus. Dodo. Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times-that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, bu...
EditorialThe Round Crested Duck (Mergus cucullatus). Dated: published 1731-1743. Dimensions: plate: 26.4 x 35.2 cm (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.9 x 51.1 cm (14 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialExtinct flightless bird, the Dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Woodblock engraving from Die Illustrirte Welt (The Illustrated World), Stuttgart, Germany, 1857.
EditorialDodo, Raphus cucullatus, and Martinique macaw, Ara martinicus, from a painting in the British Museum. Woodcut based on the painting by Roelant Savery in The Penny Magazine, London, June 1, 1833.
EditorialDodo, Raphus cucullatus, extinct bird with dragonfly, doree and dogfish. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Frederic Martyn's "New Dictionary of Natural History, or Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature," Harrison, London, 1785. Th...
EditorialDodo, Raptus cucullatus (extinct), ostrich, Struthio camelus, and cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable). Steel engraving by F. Kearney from Oliver Goldsmith's "History of the Earth and Animated Nature," Fullerton, Edinburgh, 1835.
EditorialSouthern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable), and dodo, Raphus cucullatus (extinct). Handcoloured lithograph by Bretzing from an illustration by Ludwig Meyer from Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen's Handbook of Natural History for Children, Berlin, Ame...
EditorialEagle, Aquila chrysaetos, and extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus. Woodblock engraving from an English translation of Buffon's Natural History, London, circa 1800.
EditorialDodo, Raphus cucullatus, extinct flightless bird. Copperplate engraving by T. Milton after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from Abraham Rees' Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary, London, 1820.