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GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



Table-ease 



13a. 



Case BB. 



Case JJ. 



Wall-case 



25. 



Case LL. 



ill Table-case 13a, aud by complete skeletons of Aptornis 

 and Diaphorapteryx in a special Case marked BB. 



With these rails there also lived flightless geese and coots 

 on the islands of the southern Ocean. An incomplete 

 skeleton of tlie large flightless goose (Cnemiornis calcitrans) 

 from Xew Zealand is mounted in Case JJ ; and there is a 

 reconstructed skeleton of a coot {Paleeolimnas cha/hamcnsis) 

 from the Chatham Islands in Wall-case 25. Other remains 

 of the same birds and their allied genera are arranged in 

 Table-case 13a. They and the smaller kinds of moas in New 

 Zealand were probably the food of a large and powerful bird 

 (•f prey {Harpagoniis moorei), of which the greater part of a 

 skeleton is mounted in Case LL. 



Fig. 86. — Restored skull and lower jaw of Fhcn-orhadios longissimtis, 

 from the Santa Cruz Formation of Patagonia; one-sixth nat. size. 

 (Case AA.) 



Wall-case 



25. 

 Case CC. 



Table-case 



12a. 

 Case AA. 



A reconstructed skeleton, with plaster casts uf the liead 

 and foot, of the extinct dodo {Didus incpins) or flightless 

 ground-pigeon of Mauritius, is exhibited in Case CC, and 

 there are other bones in Wall-case 25. This Ijird, however, 

 is better illustrated in the Department of Zoology, where 

 there is also a skeleton of the allied solitaire (Pezophaps) from 

 Tiodriguez. 



To a somewhat earlier geological period must be assigned 

 the extinct cariamas and other birds from the Santa Cruz 

 and other Tertiary Formations of Patagonia, which are com- 

 prised in the Ameghiuo Collection in Table-case 12a. 

 I'hororhacJios, the best known genus, is characterised by a 

 verv large head and a small bodv, as shown by the a.ssociated 



