EXTINCT ANIMALS 



bird, the Cariama or Screamer. If the extinct 

 bird had the general proportions and habits of 

 the Cariama, as seems probable, it must have 

 been a terrible monster, standing some twelve 

 feet high and far exceeding the most powerful 

 eagles and vultures in strength and the size of 



Fig. 175. — Photographs to one scale of the South American 

 Cariama and the skull of the gigantic extinct Phororachus. 



its beak and claws. Great extinct wingless birds 

 are found in quite recent " alluvial " deposits 

 in New Zealand and in Madagascar. The 

 discovery of the bones of the great Moa of 

 New Zealand has already been mentioned in 

 our second chapter (p. 69). Many species of 

 Moa have been found in New Zealand. The 



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