Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical timesRothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
Birds; Extinct birds
_Emeus gravipes_ Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 298 (1891)
Nos. A95, on p. 299, to 47444d, on p. 300.
_Dinornis gravis_ (portion) Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. VIII, p. 361
(1872).
_Euryapteryx gravis_ Haast, Ibis 1874, p. 213.
The present species is smaller than _E. crassus_ and has the
tarso-metatarsus relatively wider. Length, 198 mm. = 7.8 inches; width at
middle of shaft, 51 mm. = 2 inches.
Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand.
EMEUS HAASTI NOM. NOV.
_Emeus_ species [Beta], Parker, Trans. Zool. Soc. XIII p. 379 (1895).
_Emeus gravipes_ Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 301 Nos.
32017, 32016, a-e and c to 32044 e on p. 307 (1891).
Sir J. von Haast united this form with _Dinornis gravis_, and the skull
which is the type of _E. haasti_ is put on a skeleton of _D. gravis_ in the
Canterbury Museum. The measurements of this species are much smaller than
those of the other species.
Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand. {211}
EMEUS PARKERI NOM. NOV.
_Emeus_ species [Gamma], Parker, Trans. Zool. Soc. XIII, p. 380 (1895).
This species is at once distinguished from the other species of the genus
by having right-angled orbits. The type is a skull from Hamilton Swamp,
named _Euryapteryx gravis_, by Prof. Hutton, in the Otago Museum.
Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand.
EMEUS EXILIS (HUTT.)
_Dinornis didiformis_ Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. III, pl. 24 (1846), part.
_Euryapteryx exilis_ Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXIX, p. 552, pl.
XLVIII, Fig. C (1897).
Differs from _E. crassus_ in the tibia being more convex on the anterior
surface. The skull, among other differences, has a very slight frontal
rising to the cranial roof, as opposed to the very conspicuous one in the
remaining species. The type is a nearly complete skeleton in the Wanganui
Museum. For full description see Hutton, l.c.
Habitat: North Island, New Zealand.
{213}
PACHYORNIS LYDEKKER.
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