Extinct Birds Part 7

(See also in Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

1893-1900. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands: with a complete history to date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possessions. London 1893-1900. With numerous plates.

(Account and coloured plates of the extinct birds of Oahu and Hawaii.)

1894. MILNE-EDWARDS ET GRANDIDIER. Observations sur les _Aepyornis_ de Madagascar.

In: Comptes Rendus hebd. des Seances de l'Acad. d. Sciences, Paris, Vol. CXVIII, Part I, pp. 122-127.

1894. J. PARKER. Notes on Three Moa-Skulls.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVI, p. 223.

1894. HAMILTON. On Avian Remains in Southland.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVI, p. 226.

1894. HAMILTON. Materials for a Bibliography of the _Dinornithidae_.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVI, pp. 229-257.

(A careful list to which I refer my readers.)

1895. C. W. ANDREWS. On some remains of Aepyornis in the Hon. Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring.

In: Novitates Zoologicae II, pp. 23-25.

1895. HAMILTON. Further contributions towards a Bibliography of the Moas.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVII, p. 228-232.

1895. JEFFERY PARKER. On the Cranial Osteology, Cla.s.sification, and Phylogeny of the Dinornithidae.

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London Vol. XIII, pp. 373-431, pls. LVI-LXII.

{xxv} 1895. HAMILTON. On the Feathers of a small Moa.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVII, pp. 232-238.

*1895. C. W. ANDREWS. On Aepyornis bones, etc., in Geological Magazine 1895.

1896. HUTTON. On a deposit of Moa-bones at Kapua.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVIII, p. 627. Id. On the Moa-bones from Enfield, t.c. p. 645.

1896. C. W. ANDREWS. On the Extinct Birds of the Chatham Islands.

In Novit Zoolog. III, p. 73-84 and 260-271.

(_Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi_, _Palaeolimnas chathamensis_, _Nesolimnas dieffenbachii_.)

1896. G. HARTLAUB. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der ausges...o...b..nen Vogel der Neuzeit, sowie derjenigen, deren Fortbestehen bedroht erscheint.

In: Abhandl. d. Naturwiss. Vereins gn. Bremen XIV Band, 1 Heft.

(Also: Second edition of the same, printed as ma.n.u.script, with a few alterations and additions.)

(The most useful, comprehensive pamphlet on recently extinct birds.)

1897. ANDREWS. On some fossil remains of Carinate Birds from Central Madagascar.

In Ibis 1897, pp. 343-359, pls. VIII and IX.

1897. H. O. FORBES. On an apparently new, and supposed to be now extinct, species of Bird from the Mascarene Islands, provisionally referred to the genus _Necropsar_. With plate.

In Bull. Liverpool Museums, I, p. 34, pl. Sturn. I (_Necropsar leguati_).

1897. FORBES AND ROBINSON. Note on Two Species of Pigeon, t.c. p. 35.

(_Hemiphaga spadicea_.)

(On pl. I of the same vol. is figured _Nestor norfolcensis_. See p.

5.)

1900. W. WOLTERSTORFF. Ausges...o...b..ne Riesenvogel. Vortrag, gehalten im Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Magdeburg. Mit zwei Abbildungen.

Stuttgart. Verlag von E. Nagele.

1900. A. MERTENS. Die Moas im Naturwissenschaftl. Museum zu Magdeburg.

Mit 2 Abbildungen.

In: Jahresbericht Naturwiss. Vereins zu Magdeburg fur 1898-1900.

(Pp. 1-24 in separate copy.)

1901. W. A. BRYAN. Key to the Birds of the Hawaiian group.

1902. WALTER ROTHSCHILD AND ERNST HARTERT. Further notes on the fauna of the Galapagos Islands.

In Nov. Zool. 1902, pp. 381-418; cf. also Nov. Zool. 1899, pp. 154, 163.

(_Geospiza magnirostris_ and _dentirostris_.)

1902. H. W. HENSHAW. Birds of the Hawaiian Islands, being a complete list of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possessions, with notes on their habits. Honolulu 1902.

1903. GRAHAM RENSHAW. The Black Emu.

In: Zoologist 1903, pp. 81-88.

1903. WILHELM BLASIUS. Der Riesenalk, _Alca impennis_ L. In the New Edition of Naumann called "Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas" (sic), vol. XII, pp. 169-208, pls. 17, 17A-17D, 1903.