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I.—Note on the Skeleton of Diaphorapteryx Hawkinsi, Forbes, a Large Extinct Rail from the Chatham Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. W. Andrews
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It is a well-known fact that many islands in which there is no indigenous mammalian fauna, have been, and in some cases are still, inhabited by flightless birds, which are usually of considerable size. Mauritius and Rodriguez are good examples of such islands; in the former the dodo and aphanapteryx, in the latter the solitaire and erythromachus, existed at least as late as the beginning of the seventeenth century, when, owing to their inability to escape from their foes by flight, they fell easy victims to the crews of ships touching at the islands, and also to the various domestic animals, such as dogs, cats, and pigs, introduced by man.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 1896 , pp. 337 - 338
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1896

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page 337 note 1 Nature, vol. xlv, p. 580.Google Scholar

page 338 note 1 “On the Extinct Birds of the Chatham Islands.” Pt. I. The Osteology of Diaphorapteryx Hawkinsi.—Novitates Zoologieæ, vol. iii (1896), p. 73, pl. iii.Google Scholar

page 338 note 2 “Sur les Ressemblances qui existent entre la Faune des Îles Mascareignes et celle de certaines Îles de l'Océan Pacifique Austral”: Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zoologie), ser. viii, vol. ii, p. 117, pls. xi–xv.Google Scholar

page 338 note 3 A skeleton of Aptornis defossor was figured about one-sixth natural size on Plate X of the present volume.