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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 — John Shaqi

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

(Notes on the living and extinct forms. The genus _Palaeolimnas_
        established. Egg of _Cabalus modestus_ figured, etc.)

    1893. W. W. SMITH. Notes on certain species of New Zealand Birds.

        In Ibis 1893, pp. 509-520.

        (Methods of colonization and their disastrous results to the birds
        described.)

    1893. MILNE-EDWARDS & OUSTALET. Notice sur quelques espèces d'oiseaux
    actuellement éteintes qui se trouvent représentées dans les collections
    du muséum d'histoire naturelle. In: Centenaire de la fondation du
    muséum d'histoire naturelle. Volume commémoratif publié par les
    professeurs du Muséum. Pp. 189-252, pls. I-V.

        (Only 6 species: _Mascarinus mascarinus_, _Alectroenas
        nitidissima_, _Alca impennis_, _Fregilupus varius_, _Camptolaemus
        labradorius_, _Dromaius_ "_ater_," but these beautifully figured
        and masterly described and discussed.)

    1893. SIR E. NEWTON AND GADOW. On additional Bones of the Dodo and
    other Extinct Birds of Mauritius obtained by Mr. Théodore Sauzier.

        In Trans. Zool. Soc. London XIII, pp. 281-302. Pls. XXXIII-XXXVII.

        (_Strix sauzieri_, _Astur alphonsi_, _Butorides mauritianus_,
        _Plotus nanus_, _Sarcidiornis mauritianus_, _Anas theodori_, etc.)

    {xxiv} 1893. A. DE QUATREFAGES. The Moas and Moa-hunters.

        In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 17-49.

        (Translation of the French article which appeared in the Nos. for
        June and July of the "Journal des Savants" by Laura Buller.)

    1893. PARKER. On the classification and mutual relations of the
    _Dinornithidae_. By T. J. Parker.

        In Trans. and Proc. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 1-6, pls. I-III.

    1893. F. W. HUTTON. New Species of Moas.

        In Trans. and Proc. New Zealand Inst. Vol. XXV, pp. 6-13.

        (_Dinornis strenuus_, _Anomalopteryx fortis_, _Euryapteryx
        compacta_, _Pachyornis inhabilis_, _P. valgus_.)

    1893. F. W. HUTTON. On _Anomalopteryx antiqua_. T.c. p. 14, pl. IV.

    *1893. R. BURCKHARDT, in Paläontolog. Abhandl. VI, Heft 2, pp. 127-145,
    Taf. 1-4.

        (_Aepyornis_.)

    1893. H. O. FORBES. The Moas of New Zealand.

        In Natural Science II, pp. 374-380.

    1893. A. HAMILTON. On the Fissures and Caves at the Castle Rocks,
    Southland; with a description of the remains of the Existing and
    Extinct Birds found in them.

        (In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 88-106; with
        figures.)

    1893. A. NEWTON. "Extermination." In A Dictionary of Birds.

        (See also in Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

    1893-1900. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. The Avifauna of Laysan and the
    Neighbouring Islands: with a complete history to date of the Birds of
    the Hawaiian Possessions. London 1893-1900. With numerous plates.

        (Account and coloured plates of the extinct birds of Oahu and
        Hawaii.)

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