APTERNUS. — APüS. 
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APTERNUS SwAiNSON, Classific. Birds 1837. II. 306. =z Ficus L. 
Lateral ridges close to the margin. Bill rather broader than high. Feet 
three toed; the two anterior nearly equal, the posterior much longer. 
americanus Swainson, Fauna bor. amer. II. ïb. 56. = Picus americanus 
SUNDEV. 
arcticus Swainson, Classific. Birds II. 306. = Picus arcticus Swains. 
cayanensis Reichenbacii, Ilandb. Ornith. I. 363. = Picus americanus Sundev. 
crissoleucus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zyg. 8. ■— Picus crissoleucus Brdt. 
hirsutus Bonaparte, Consp. Avium I. 139. — Picus americanus Sundev. 
Kamtschatchensis Bonaparte , Consp. Vol. Zyg. 8. = Picus crissoleucus Brdt. 
longirostris, montanus, septentrionalis Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 274. = 
Picus tridactylus L. 
tridactylus Gould, Birds Europe Tb. 232. = Picus tridactylus L. 
APTERORNIS bonasia Selys Longciiamps, Revue Zoolog. 1848. 294. = Apha- 
napteryx bonasia M. Edw. 
caerulescens Selys Longchamps, Revue Zool. 1848. 294. = Porphyrio caeru- 
lescens Schleg. 
solitaria Selys Longchamps, Revue Zool. 1848. 294. — Pezohaps solitaria 
Selys Longch. ~^ 
APTERYX (Struthionidae. — à TTTspu? non alatus). Shaw, Natur. Miscell. Tb. 
1057. — Gray, Genera Birds IIL Tb. 139. 
Bill more or less lengthened^ very slender; with the base covered by a bony 
cere, broad and rather depressed; the culmen rounded, straight to near the tip, 
which projects over that of the lower mandible and rather obtuse; the sides gra- 
dually compressed and grooved towards the end; the gonys very long and slightly 
curved; the nostrils placed on each side at the tip, very small and sublinear; the 
base of the bill furnished with lengthened hairs. Wings abbreviated and covered 
with feathers. Tail not apparent. Tarsi the length of the middle toe, very robust 
and covered with variously sized scales, those of the inner and outer sides the 
smallest. Toes three before, with the lateral ones equal and all covered above with 
broad scales; the hind toe very short, united to the tarsus and armed with a long^ 
strong and rather acute claw, — 4 Specc. 
australis Shaw, Natur. Miscell. XXIV. Tb. 1057. 58. — Yarrell, Transact. 
Zool. Soc. L 71. Tb. 10. — Gray, Genera Birds IIL Tb. 139. [Otago. 
Pinguinus aptéryx Latham. 
Droniceius novae Zealandiae Lesson, Manuel Ornith. II. 210; V^oy. Astro- 
labe Oiseaux Tb. 24. 
Kiwi Kiwi. 
MaiiteUi Bartlett, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1847. XV. 93. Tb. 30. 31. — Sclatek, 
Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. VL 362. [Nov. Selandia. 
Aptéryx australis Gould, Birds Australia VI. Tb. 2. 
maxima Verreaux. Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 841. — Sclater, 
Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. IV. 363. [Nov. Selandia. 
The Fireman Gould, Birds Australia VI. Tb. 3. 
Aptéryx major Ellmann, Zoologist 1861. 
Boa roa. Kiwi parure. 
Oweni Gould, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1847. XV. 94; Transact. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
in. 379. Tb. 57; Birds Australia VL Tb. 3. — Sclater, Transact. Zool. Soc. 
1862. rV. 362. [Cooks Str. 
Kiwi iti, Kiwi hoi hoi. 
APTORMIS (Genus foss.) Owen, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1850. 
otidiformis Owen, 1. c. [Nova Selandia. 
APXJS ScopoLi, Introd. Hist. nat. 1777. 483. — Lesson, Traité Ornith. 1831. 267. 
= Cypselus III., Dendrochelidon Boie. 
Tarses ordinairement vêtus, courts; à doigts antérieurs au nombre de trois 
et le pouce versatile c'est à dire déjeté en devant; la queue très-diversement four- 
chue; les doigts antérieurs à trois phalanges; sternum sans échancrure. 
