TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parish,Jolyon C.
TI  - The dodo and the solitaire: a natural history 
T2  - Life of the past
SN  - 9780253000996 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - QL696.C67 P37 2013
U1  - 598.9 23
PY  - 2012///], c2013
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Dodo
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Solitaire (Bird)
KW  - Extinct birds
KW  - Mauritius
KW  - Birds in art
KW  - Extinct animals in art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-398) and index
N2  - The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing their ecology, classification, phylogenetic placement, and evolution. Both birds were large and flightless and lived on inhabited islands some 500 miles east of Madagascar. The first recorded descriptions of the dodo were provided by Dutch sailors who first encountered them in 1598 - within 100 years, the dodo was extinct. So quickly did the bird disappear that there is insufficient evidence to form an entirely accurate picture of its appearance and ecology, and the absence has led to much speculation. The story of the dodo, like that of the solitaire, has been pieced together from fragments, both literary and physical, that have been carefully compiled and examined in this extraordinary volume

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