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SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY 



Order 2. Apteryges 



The Apteryges (Gr. a, without, and irrepv^, wing) consist of 

 a single genus, Apteryx (Figs. 336 and 337), with four species, 

 living in New Zealand. They are the kiwis, small birds about 



Fig. 338. Eudyptes antipodum, a penguin. (After Buller, from Parker and Haswell's 



Text-book.) 



as large as the domestic fowl, with long beaks, at the tip of 

 which are the nostrils. The body is covered with hairlike 

 feathers. The egg is very large, being about a quarter the 

 weight of the adult bird. There is no furcula or wishbone, and 

 a keel is absent from the sternum. 



