THE 
SOUTHERN APTERYX, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill long, slender, nearly strait, covered at the 
base by a cere, marked on each side by a 
tubular furrow, slightly swelled and bent 
at the tip. 
Nostrils? linear, inconspicuous, near the tip of 
the bill, at the end of the tubular furrow. 
Wings rudiments only, consisting of a single 
joint or finger, about an inch in length, 
and terminated by a small claw or spur. 
Feet comped, short, strong, gallinaceous, and 
tetradactyle ; the hinder or subinterior toe 
very short. 
Tail none. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ferruginous - grey Apteryx, with yellowish 
brown bill and legs. 
The bird represented on the present plate consti- 
tutes a perfectly new genus, which it is not easy to re- 
fer to any of the established ornithological orders. It 
seems however to approach more nearly to the Struthi- 
ous and the Gallinaceous tribes than to any other, 
though the very different form of the beak implies a 
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