"Phoenix (a bird)"
History: Many recognize the Bird Phoenix as being the mythological bird that commits suicide by engulfing itself in flames, only to rise out of the flames reborn (some accounts say the bird would rise out of the ashes, not the flames). Although this idea is present in classical mythology, there is no formal mythology associated with this constellation; it is a modern constellation, first described by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. They were the Dutch navigators who first formally mapped some of the stars of the Southern Hemisphere in the years 1595 through 1597.