Category: Science - Biology
An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times--that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction.
This bird was first made known by Leguat in 1708, but some confusion seems to have arisen, owing to his applying the same name to them as the Sieur D.B. (Dubois) gave to the Bou...
12. Part 12This passage cannot be meant for a turtle-dove, but the description of the bill and surrounding of the eyes shows that it refers to a form allied to _Nesoenas mayeri_. The latte...
11. Part 11The most detailed descriptions are probably those given in the New Edition of Naumann (see above), where also a list of literature and figures is given, fully seven folio pages...
4. Part 4This curious form differs from _G. fortis fortis_ (Charles Island!) in its bill, which is bowed in towards the end of the upper mandible, and slightly "toothed" on its cutting e...
5. Part 5We know only of one single specimen, the type of the names _ellisianus_ and _lichtensteini_, figured and described by Lichtenstein, in 1838, under the name of _Hemignathus obscu...
8. Part 8The allusion to the small size also points to the geese of Marshall being the _Sarcidiornis_. L'Abbé Dubois in "Les Voyages du Sieur D.B." records the fact that on Bourbon were...
6. Part 6In the Bull. B.O.C. XVI, p. 15 (1905), I unfortunately described this bird under the name of _Anadorhynchus coeruleus_ (Gm.), having misread his description, and also said it ca...
10. Part 10This species was founded on a nearly entire skull, collected by Walter Mantell at Waingongoro, North Island, New Zealand. This skull is more than twice the size of that of _Porp...
9. Part 9"Bill short, straight, and slender; wings long, first, second, and third quills very nearly equal; tertiaries but very little longer than the secondaries; tail rather long, wide...
3. Part 3(Though containing very interesting notes on extinct and threatened birds, these two volumes are rather disappointing. They contain very little that is new, and are mainly compo...
15. Part 15Dr. von Haast (Sir Julius von Haast) took as his type of _Dinornis oweni_ the almost complete skeleton collected by Mr. Cheeseman in a cave at Patana, Whangarei, and now in the...
14. Part 14I have adopted Professor Parker's classification in the genera, only substituting _Cela_ Reichenbach for _Mesapteryx_ Hutton, which is a synonym of _Megalapteryx_ Haast. As to t...
7. Part 7The tertials and secondaries have a darker brown bar towards the centre, and their outer web is pleasantly marked with somewhat square ocelli or irregular bands of white, pale b...
2. Part 2(A very interesting collection of ancient voyages, translated into French. In Vol. II is a translation of Bontekoe's travels to the "East Indies," with figures of the Dodo and o...
1. Part 1An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times--that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are...
16. Part 16This appears to be the largest species of the genus, though _Ae. maximus_ is considerably stouter. In the original description of _Ae. ingens_, however, the tibio-tarsi referred...
17. Part 17defossor (Aptornis), 148 dentirostris (Geospiza), 12 deppei (Psittirostra), 37 diabolica (Aestrelata), 159 Diaphorapteryx, 133 Dididae, 171 didiformis (Anomalopteryx), 202 didif...