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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 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

Name: Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times
Author: Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Birds; Extinct birds

"Length of tibio-tarsus                 440 mm.
   Circumference of tibio-tarsus           97 "
   Width of tibio-tarsus                   34 "
   Width at proximal end                   65 "
   Width at distal end                     75 " "

Habitat: South-west Madagascar.

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                           FLACOURTIA ANDREWS.

Differs from _Mullerornis_ in having a completely ossified bony bridge over
the lower end of the groove for the adductor of the outer digit, in the
tarso-metatarsus.

Number of species: 1.



                  FLACOURTIA RUDIS (MILNE-EDW. & GRAND.)

    _Mullerornis rudis_ Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, Compt. Rend. CXVIII, p.
    126 (1894).

    _Flacourtia rudis_ Andrews, Nov. Zool. II, p. 25 (1895).

Original description as follows:--"The third species _M. rudis_ (= _F.
rudis_) was discovered by M. Grevé in the fossiliferous beds of the West
Coast. The tibio-tarsus is of about the same length as in _M. betsilei_,
but is more massive. The tarso-metatarsus is remarkable on account of the
great enlargement of the distal extremity, and of which the digital
articular attachments are extremely large. Between the middle and outer
ones there is a bony opening for the passage of the adductor muscle of the
outer digit, which passage is not present in _Aepyornis_ (or _Mullerornis_,
W.R.)." (Translation.)

  Length of tibio-tarsus                 400 mm.
  Circumference of tibio-tarsus          100 "
  Width of tibio-tarsus                   35 "
  Width of distal end                     75 "

Habitat: West Madagascar.

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                        DROMAIUS PERONI NOM. NOV.

                               (PLATE 40.)

    _Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande_ Péron, Relat. Voy. Terr. Austr. I p.
    467, pl. XXXVI (1807).

    _Dromoius ater_ Vieillot, Gal. des Ois, pl. 226 (not text).

    _Dromaeus ater_ Blyth, Ibis 1862, p. 93.

It is most unfortunate that the larger number of authors have neglected to
go carefully into the synonymy of this bird; if they had done so it would
not have been necessary, after 81 years, to reject the very appropriate
name of _ater_, and to rename the Emu of Kangaroo Island. Vieillot, in the
Nouveau Dictionnaire D'Histoire Naturelle X, page 212, distinctly states
that his _Dromaius ater_ was a name given to Latham's _Casuarius
novaehollandiae_, and makes no mention of Péron or of the Isle Decrès.

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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 timesRothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Science

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

"Length of tibio-tarsus                 440 mm.
   Circumference of tibio-tarsus           97 "
   Width of tibio-tarsus                   34 "
   Width at proximal end                   65 "
   Width at distal end                     75 " "

Habitat: South-west Madagascar.

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                           FLACOURTIA ANDREWS.

Differs from _Mullerornis_ in having a completely ossified bony bridge over
the lower end of the groove for the adductor of the outer digit, in the
tarso-metatarsus.

Number of species: 1.



                  FLACOURTIA RUDIS (MILNE-EDW. & GRAND.)

    _Mullerornis rudis_ Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, Compt. Rend. CXVIII, p.
    126 (1894).

    _Flacourtia rudis_ Andrews, Nov. Zool. II, p. 25 (1895).

Original description as follows:--"The third species _M. rudis_ (= _F.
rudis_) was discovered by M. Grevé in the fossiliferous beds of the West
Coast. The tibio-tarsus is of about the same length as in _M. betsilei_,
but is more massive. The tarso-metatarsus is remarkable on account of the
great enlargement of the distal extremity, and of which the digital
articular attachments are extremely large. Between the middle and outer
ones there is a bony opening for the passage of the adductor muscle of the
outer digit, which passage is not present in _Aepyornis_ (or _Mullerornis_,
W.R.)." (Translation.)

  Length of tibio-tarsus                 400 mm.
  Circumference of tibio-tarsus          100 "
  Width of tibio-tarsus                   35 "
  Width of distal end                     75 "

Habitat: West Madagascar.

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                        DROMAIUS PERONI NOM. NOV.

                               (PLATE 40.)

    _Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande_ Péron, Relat. Voy. Terr. Austr. I p.
    467, pl. XXXVI (1807).

    _Dromoius ater_ Vieillot, Gal. des Ois, pl. 226 (not text).

    _Dromaeus ater_ Blyth, Ibis 1862, p. 93.

It is most unfortunate that the larger number of authors have neglected to
go carefully into the synonymy of this bird; if they had done so it would
not have been necessary, after 81 years, to reject the very appropriate
name of _ater_, and to rename the Emu of Kangaroo Island. Vieillot, in the
Nouveau Dictionnaire D'Histoire Naturelle X, page 212, distinctly states
that his _Dromaius ater_ was a name given to Latham's _Casuarius
novaehollandiae_, and makes no mention of Péron or of the Isle Decrès.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

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