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APHANAPTERYX FRAUENFELD. 



BILL produced, not cut short, rather curved. The nostrils are exposed 

 and situated at the base of the bill. Halluces of the naked fowl-like 

 legs of moderate length. Front of legs apparently scutellated. Wings 

 abortive, no rectrices apparent. 



APHANAPTERYX BONASIA selys. 



(Plate 29.) 



A Hen Sir Thomas Herbert, A relation of some years' Travaile (1626). 

 Velt-hoenders Reyer Cornelisz, Van der Hagen's voyage (1646). 



Poules rouges an bee de Becasse Cauche, Relations veritables et curieuses de l'lsle de 

 Madagascar (1651). 



Apteromis bonasia Edm. de S61ys-Longchamps, Revue Zoologique, p. 292 (1848). 

 Didus herberti Schlegel, Vers. Med. Ak. Wetensch., II, p. 256 (1854). 

 Didus broecki Schlegel, I.e. 



Aphanapteryx imperialis Frauenfeld, Neu aufgef. Abbild. Dronte, p. 6 (1868). 



Aphanapteryx broeckii Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (5), X, pp. 325-346, pis. 15-18 

 (1868). 



Pezophaps broeckii Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Struthiones, p. 4 (1873). 



I HERE give a translation of Frauenfeld's original diagnosis: "Of the 

 size of a fowl, of a uniform brown red all over. Bill and legs dark, 

 Iris yellowish. Feathers decomposed, as in the Apteryx, somewhat 

 lengthened on the nape." 



This description was made by Frauenfeld from a drawing by 

 G. Hoefnagels, in the Imperial Library, Vienna, executed about the year 

 1610, and, together with that of the Dodo, apparently drawn from life in the 

 Imperial Menagerie at Ebersdorf. This drawing proves Van den Broecke, 

 Herbert, and Cauche's descriptions to have been correct, though their 

 drawings are somewhat startlingly different in shape. Only known from these 

 four drawings and osseous remains. 18 fragments of beaks, 5 pelves, 35 tibiae, 

 1 sacrum and fragments, and 1 vertebra in the Tring Museum. 

 Habitat : Mauritius. 



