 An Indian Mughal painting rediscovered in St. Petersburg in the 1950s shows a dodo along with native Indian birds . It depicts a slimmer , brownish bird , and its discoverer A. Iwanow and dodo specialist Julian Hume regard it as one of the most accurate depictions of the living dodo ; the surrounding birds are clearly identifiable and depicted with appropriate colouring . It is believed to be from the 17th century and has been attributed to artist Ustad Mansur . The bird depicted probably lived in the menagerie of Mughal Emperor Jahangir , located in Surat , where English traveller Peter Mundy also claimed to have seen dodos . In 2014 , another Indian illustration of a dodo was reported , but it was found to be derivative of an 1836 German illustration . 
