A very unusual dodo painting of the "winds of change"

Wilkinson's, a Yorkshire auctioneer, sells on 21 June 2015 a "17th century" oil on canvas "depicting a female figure floating in a barren landscape with a lizard and dodo bird beneath her, and building in distance, the corners painted with cherubs' heads blowing wind from billowing clouds" (to quote their description in full). A quite large painting (77 by 122), it is estimated at £1,200 to £1,600.

17th century dodo paintings are a collector's dream, as they are seriously rare and dodos remain ever popular. At first, I didn't believe this to be a dodo, it certainly isn't a realistic depiction of one, and many 17th century paintings (mainly in the Garden of Eden type, known from Jan Brueghel and the like) have other turkeylike birds which may be mistaken for a dodo.

But when one starts to decipher the painting, the claim that it is a dodo starts to make sense. The subject of the painting seems to me to be the "winds of change". For starters, we have the four winds blowing from the corners, around a seated goddess(?) with cloud hair, who may be Elektra or one of the Nephelai, or a goddess I don't immedately recognise (Aura? Fortuna?). The "lizard" in the foreground is a chameleon, symbol of change. In the background, we see a ruin, again a symbol of "tempus fugit", the wheel of time and the winds of change that stops for no man or building. In that context, a symbolic extinct bird, the dodo, makes perfect sense. The whole is a kind of vanitas or memento mori painting, don't bask in your current status because tomorrow it may all change and come to an end. Of course, this would suggest that it was painted after it was known that the dodo was extinct, which was not until the early 19th century. That bit I haven't been able to figure out completely yet :-)

It's not a particularly good painting, and may be early 18th century (French?) instead of 17th century, but even so it is a very unusual one (a short search didn't reveal any other paintings of this type), and the dodo (if it is a dodo) is a very serious added bonus. I wouldn't be surprised if this surpasses its estimate considerably and sells for £5,000 or more. UPDATE: sold for £1,200, so the bidders didn't share my enthusiasm and/or analysis.