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
The sternum differs from that of _A. melleri_ by the lesser height of the
keel and by the shape and direction of the anterior margin of the latter.
The coracoid is longer and larger than in _N. bernieri_, but is much
shorter than in _A. melleri_, though agreeing with that of the latter in
shape, and by the plain almost ridgeless ventral surface of the shaft. The
seven humeri vary in length from 70-78 mm., and agree in size with those of
_N. punctata_, thus proving our species to be smaller than _A. melleri_.
The two tarso-metatarsi are in poor condition; the right one measuring 42
mm. in length, thus indicating that _A. theodori_ was a bird with a shorter
foot than _A. melleri_.
Habitat: Mauritius.
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CAMPTOLAIMUS LABRADORIA (GM.)
(PLATE 36.)
_Anas labradoria_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 2, p. 537 (1788--"Habitat
gregaria in America, boreali." Ex Pennant and Latham.)
_Anas labradora_ Latham, Ind. Orn. II, p. 859 (1790).
_Rhynchaspis labradora_ Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, 2, p. 121
(1824).
_Fuligula labradora_ Bonaparte, Ann. Lyceum N.Y. II, p. 391 (1826).
_Somateria labradora_ Boie, Isis 1828, p. 329.
_Kamptorhynchus labradorus_ Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 151 (1838).
_Fuligula grisea_ Leib, Journ. Acad. Sc. Philad. VIII, p. 170
(1840--young bird).
_Camptolaimus labradorus_ Gray, List. Gen. B. ed. 2, p. 95 (1841);
Dutcher, Auk. 1891, p. 201, pl. II; 1894, pp. 4-12; Hartl. Abh. naturw.
Ver. Bremen XVI, p. 23 (1895).
_Camptolaemus labradorius_ Baird, B.N. Amer. p. 803 (1858); Baird,
Brewer and Ridgway, Water--B. N. Amer. II, p. 63 (1884); Milne-Edw. and
Oustalet, Centen. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Notice Ois. éteint. p. 51, pl. IV
(1893); Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVII, p. 416 (1895).
The adult male and a young male, both in my museum, are represented on
plate 36, but the young bird became too rufous, through the colour type
reproduction, and should be somewhat more mouse-gray. Though first
technically named by Gmelin in 1788, this duck was first described in 1785
by Pennant, in the Arctic Zoology II, p. 559, as follows:--
"Pied Duck. With the lower part of the bill black, the upper yellow, on the
summit of the head is an oblong black spot; forehead, cheeks, rest of the
head and neck, white; the lower part encircled with black; scapulars and
coverts of wings white; back, breast, belly, and primaries, black; tail
cuneiform, and dusky; legs black. The bill of the supposed female?
resembles that of the male, head and neck mottled with cinereous brown and
dirty white; primaries dusky; speculum white; back, breast, and belly
clouded with different shades of ash-colour; tail dusky and cuneiform; legs
black. Size of a common Wild Duck.
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