FACTS ABOUT DODO 69 REVEALED

Baron Edmond de Sélys Longchamps coined the identify Raphus solitarius for these birds in 1848, as he thought the accounts referred to the species of dodo. When seventeenth-century paintings of white dodos had been learned by 19th-century naturalists, it was assumed they depicted these birds. Oudemans advised the discrepancy amongst the paintings