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SOUTHERN APTERYX. 



(Apteryx Australis.) 



Ap. griseo-Jerruginea, rostro pedibusquefusco-Jlavescentibus. 

 Ferruginous-grey Apteryx with yellowish-brown beak and legs. 

 Apteryx Australis, or Southern Apteryx. Shaw, Nat. Misc. 



v. xxiv.pl. 1057, 1058. 

 Apteryx. Temm. man. d'Orn. Ed. 2. Anal. p. cxiv. 

 Apterous Penguin. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 394. 



" Size of a Goose : length two feet and a half: 

 beak yellowish-brown, long and slender, somewhat in 

 the form of (that of) the Patagonian Penguin ; length 

 from the gape to the tip six inches and three quar- 

 ters ; at the base rather stout, and covered with a 

 kind of cere ; it is also a trifle enlarged at the end, 

 and somewhat curved ; the under mandible shutting 

 beneath the other : the nostrils linear near the tip of 

 the beak, scarcely to be detected, placed at the end 

 of a tubular furrow : plumage ferruginous-grey ; the 

 feathers not greatly unlike those of the New Holland 

 Cassowary (Emit), but only one from each shaft : the 

 wings not perceivable, except on close examination, 

 being only a small stump, with a claw or spur at the 

 end, furnished with a few straggling feathers, and 

 quite hid in the plumage ; some of the feathers of 

 which are weak, and four inches or more long, and 

 the edges of them incline to dusky, giving a mottled 

 or mixed appearance : there is no appearance of a 

 tail : the legs are short and stout, the colour of the 

 beak, but rather darker : the feet have three toes 

 before, separate, and one behind, but the last is placed 



