Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, extinct flightless bird (formerly Didus ineptus). Handcoloured woodblock print by an unknown artist from Brightly and Child's The Natural History of Birds, 1815. This illustration looks like a mirror image of the one in George Edwards' A Natural History of Uncommon BIrds, 1743, which was copied from the painting in the British Museum said to have been executed from the living bird.