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THE 
SOUTHERN APTERYX. 
SHOR Re . 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Bill long, slender, nearly strait, covered at the 
base by a cere, marked on each side by a 
tubular furrow, slightly swelled aa bent 
_ at the tip. 
Nostrils? linear, inconspicuous, near the tip of 
the bill, at the end of the tubular furrow. 
Msi 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. 
Taj! none. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
_ Ferruginous- grey  Apteryx, with, yellowisl: 
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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