<P> On their left hand was a little island which they named Heemskirk Island, and the bay it selve they called Warwick Bay...Here they taried 12 . daies to refresh themselues, finding in this place great quantity of foules twice as bigge as swans, which they call Walghstocks or Wallowbirdes being very good meat . But finding an abundance of pigeons & popinnayes (parrots), they disdained any more to eat those great foules calling them Wallowbirds, that is to say lothsome or fulsome birdes . </P> <P> Another account from that voyage, perhaps the first to mention the dodo, states that the Portuguese referred to them as penguins . The meaning may not have been derived from penguin (the Portuguese referred to them as "fotilicaios" at the time), but from pinion, a reference to the small wings . The crew of the Dutch ship Gelderland referred to the bird as "Dronte" (meaning "swollen") in 1602, a name that is still used in some languages . This crew also called them "griff - eendt" and "kermisgans", in reference to fowl fattened for the Kermesse festival in Amsterdam, which was held the day after they anchored on Mauritius . </P> <P> The etymology of the word dodo is unclear . Some ascribe it to the Dutch word dodoor for "sluggard", but it is more probably related to Dodaars, which means either "fat - arse" or "knot - arse", referring to the knot of feathers on the hind end . The first record of the word Dodaars is in Captain Willem Van West - Zanen's journal in 1602 . The English writer Sir Thomas Herbert was the first to use the word dodo in print in his 1634 travelogue, claiming it was referred to as such by the Portuguese, who had visited Mauritius in 1507 . Another Englishman, Emmanuel Altham, had used the word in a 1628 letter, in which he also claimed the origin was Portuguese . The name "dodar" was introduced into English at the same time as dodo, but was only used until the 18th century . As far as is known, the Portuguese never mentioned the bird . Nevertheless, some sources still state that the word dodo derives from the Portuguese word doudo (currently doido), meaning "fool" or "crazy". It has also been suggested that dodo was an onomatopoeic approximation of the bird's call, a two - note pigeon - like sound resembling "doo - doo". </P> <P> The Latin name cucullatus ("hooded") was first used by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg in 1635 as Cygnus cucullatus, in reference to Carolus Clusius's 1605 depiction of a dodo . In his 18th - century classic work Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus used cucullatus as the specific name, but combined it with the genus name Struthio (ostrich). Mathurin Jacques Brisson coined the genus name Raphus (referring to the bustards) in 1760, resulting in the current name Raphus cucullatus . In 1766, Linnaeus coined the new binomial Didus ineptus (meaning "inept dodo"). This has become a synonym of the earlier name because of nomenclatural priority . </P>

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