Details - Notice of the discovery by Mr Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis, a bird of the Rail family, allied to Brachypteryx, and hitherto unknown to naturalists except in a fossil state

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Notice of the discovery by Mr Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis, a bird of the Rail family, allied to Brachypteryx, and hitherto unknown to naturalists except in a fossil state

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Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durant 1820-1895

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1850

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Also includes "Remarks on Notornis Mantelli" by J. Gould, p.212

Newspaper cuttings are from:1. The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belle Lettres, November 1850, p.859 being comments on the proceedings of the Zoological Society.2. Illustrated London News (no date given) entitled "The Moho ; or, Notornis Mantelli ; unique bird from New Zealand". Also includes a drawing.3. Otago Witness, March 29, 1932 entitled "The third Notornis went to Germany" by J. Drummond

Also includes "Remarks on Notornis Mantelli" by J. Gould, p.212

Reprinted from the proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, no.214, 1850.

Newspaper cuttings at the end of book.

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