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Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees (by W. Clowes and sons, limited)
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-bones, with plaster castsof other bones, of Ilesperornis from the Chalk of Kansas,U.S.A. The vertebra with saddle-sliaped ends are especiallywell preserved. These fossils seem to belong to swimmingbirds like the existing divers (Cobjmhus); and the largerbones from Kansas indicate a species If. regalis (Fig. 84),which would measure from three to four feet in height. Alarge drawing of a skeleton restored by the discoverer.Professor 0. C. Maisli, is framed near the window. Hespev-ornis has teeth in a groove in each jaw, though the extremityof its upper jaw is toothless, and would prolSably be coveredwith the usual horny beak. The bird must have been fliglit-less, as indicated by its flattened breast-bone (sternum). A 88 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. Table-ease littk flying bird with keeled sternum, Ichthyornis (Fig. 85),^^ lias also been found in the Kansas Chalk, but is notrepresented in the collection. Its teeth are in distinctsockets, and some of its vertebrae are biconcave.
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Fig. 84.—Skeleton of a toothed flightless bird, Hcsjicrornis regalis, from theCretaceous of Kansas, U.S.A.; about one-eighth nat. size. (AfterMarsh. See Table-case 13.) Among quite recently exterminated Carinatae from the Table-case.Ca^e^BB •^t^^ithern hemisphere, the rails from New Zealand (Aiitornis), AVES. 89 the Chatham Ishmds (Diaplwra^itcryx) and Mauritius (Aphan-apteryx), are of great interest on account of their closeresemblance to each other and to the living Meka rail(Oeydromus) of New Zealand. As they are all unable to fly, Table-case 13a.Case BB

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