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Table-case illustrated by various specimens in Table-case 13a, and by 



13 cc coin pl ete skeletons of Aptornis and Diaphorapteryx in a 



special Case marked CC. 



Case DD. With these rails there also lived flightless geese and coots 



a 2 5° ase on the islands of the southern Ocean. An incomplete 



skeleton of the large flightless goose (Cnemiomis calcitrans) 



from New Zealand is mounted in Case DD ; and there is a 



reconstructed skeleton of a coot (Palmolimnas chathamensis) 



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 



of prey {Harpagornis moorei), of which the greater part of a 



Case EE. skeleton is mounted in Case EE. 



Pig. 86. — Restored skull and lower, 1 jaw of Phororhachos longissimus, 

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

 (Case AA.) 



Wall-case A reconstructed skeleton, with plaster casts of the head 

 25 i,- B and foot, of the extinct dodo (Didus ineptus) or flightless 

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

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

 is better illustrated in the Department of Zoology, where 

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

 Bodriguez. 



Table-case To a somewhat earlier geological period must be assigned 

 _-? a ; • the extinct cariamas and other birds from the Santa Cruz 

 and other Tertiary Formations of Patagonia, which are com- 

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

 Phororhachos, the best known genus, is characterised by a 

 very large head and a small body, as shown by the associated 



Case AA. 



