Dodo-Platypus

Raphus cucullatus

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“De literatuur over de Dodo is zeer omvangrijk, voor uitgebreide literatuurlijsten kan

verwezen worden naar :

• · K. Lambrecht. Handbuch der Palaeorinithologie, 1933.
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believing that the Dodo, Didus ineptus Linn., was a bird existing in the Isle of France, or

the neighbouring islands, until a recent period. In The Zoological Journal, vol. 3, 1827-

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taille-douce, dédiées à Mgr. Le Comte d’Artois. Paris : Chez Ruault, 1778, p. 154-157.

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Mauritius obtained by Mr. Théodore Sauzier. In Transactions of the Zoological Society of

London, vol. 13, pt. 7, 1892, p. 281-302.

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21. Rothschild, W. 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

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Ornithorynchus anatinus

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