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THE paragraph in NATURE of April 29, p. 615, on the Edwards dodo painting reminds one that this famous picture has a double interest. If one examines it as it hangs in the Bird Gallery of the Natural History Museum, one notes that behind the dodo is figured a long-billed bird referable to no known species of stork or ibis. The unknown is straight-beaked and of a reddish hue varied with black, feebly recalling the plumage of a corncrake; it holds a frog in its bill. The occiput is slightly crested and the legs sturdy as if for swift running.
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RENSHAW, G. The Dodo and the Aphanapteryx. Nature 131, 728 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131728b0
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