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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)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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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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Fig. 85.—Skeleton of a toothed flying bird, Ichthyornis victor, from theCretaceous of Kansas, U.S.A.; one-half nat. size. (After Marsh.) it is difficult to understand liow they reached such widelyseparated islands. They are illustrated l)y various specimens 90 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. Table-ease 13a. Case BB. Case JJ. Wall-case 25. Case LL. ill Table-case 13a, aud by complete skeletons of Aptornisand Diaphorapteryx in a special Case marked BB. With these rails there also lived flightless geese and cootson the islands of the southern Ocean. An incompleteskeleton of tlie large flightless goose (Cnemiornis calcitrans)from Xew Zealand is mounted in Case JJ; and there is areconstructed skeleton of a coot (Paleeolimnas cha/hamcnsis)from the Chatham Islands in Wall-case 25. Other remainsof the same birds and their allied genera are arranged inTable-case 13a. They and the smaller kinds of moas in NewZealand were probably the food of a large and powerful bird(•f prey (Harpago

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