Carolus Clusius

Verumenimverò, concinnatâ & descriptâ jam quâ potui fide hujus avis historiâ, illius crus genu tenus rescissum, apud Cl. V. Petrum Pawium, primarium artis Medicæ in Academia Lugduno-Batava Professorem videre contigit recens è Mauritii Insula relatum.

After I had written down the history of this bird as well as I could, I happened to see in the house of Peter Pawius, Professor of Medicine in the University of Leyden, a leg cut off at the knee, and recently brought from Mauritius.