File:The Farm at Foul Bay.jpg

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Description Illustration of "the Farm at Foul Bay", which may depict a Mauritian Shelduck (Alopochen mauritianus) between the streams.
Date 1670, first published in 1995
Source https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250230307_Is_the_bird_a_Dodo_The_wildlife_of_a_mid-seventeenth_century_drawing_of_Dutch_Mauritius
Author Unknown artist, accompanied a letter sent by Governor G. F. van Wreeden from Mauritius to the Dutch East India Company

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