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AEPYORNIS MULLERI M.-E. & GRAND. 



Aepyomis mulleri Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, C.R. CXVII, pp. 124-125 (1894). 



THE original description commences: "The new species which we owe to 

 the researches of M. G. Muller, and which we shall name Ae. mulleri, 

 is smaller. Nevertheless, it is superior in size to Ae. hildebrandti, 

 described by M. Burckhardt, which also came from Antsirabe. We possess 

 the almost complete skeleton of this bird, the skull, mandible, vertebrae, ribs, 

 sternum, a part of the pelvis, the leg bones, and a few phalanges of the pes ; 

 so that we can now exactly define the position and affinities of the genus 

 Aepyomis." Then follows the diagnosis of the family, which I have given 

 before. 



Habitat : Central Madagascar. 



AEPYORNIS MODESTUS M.-E. & GRAND. 



Aepyomis modestus Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, Ann. Sci. Nat. (5) XII, p. 189 (1869). 



MESSRS. MILNE-EDWARDS & GRANDIDIER state at pages 180-181 

 that the bone (a portion of a femur) which is the type of the above 

 name, had a shaft-circumference of 120 mm., while in Ae. medius this 

 circumference was 215 mm., and in Ae. grandidieri (= maximus auct. nec. 

 Geoffroy), it was 270 mm. 



Type locality : Amboulitsate, in West Madagascar. 



