TUB MO A AND APTBRTX. 





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General Characters of Running Birds. T ic kiwi-kiwi, 

 the moa, cassowary, and ostrich differ from other bird 

 the smooth, unkeelcd sternum and the shorl tail; the « 

 are rudimentarj and the hind I i'ong, these bij 





Fio . v.'i I Moa, Pa lapU ryx, with three Kiwi-kiwi i 



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eepi Apteryx) being runners, and either of large or, as in 

 the extinct forms, of colossal - 



The simplest form is the ■•kiwi-kiwi"' or ApU 'yx of 

 New Zealand (Fig. 243), of which there are three or four 

 species, li is of the size of a hen, with n long slender beak, 

 the nostrils situated at the end of the upper jaw. while the 



