Extinct Birds Part 8

(Among others the most complete bibliography and very detailed descriptions.)

1903. FLEMING, J. H. On the Pa.s.senger Pigeon.

In Auk 1903, p. 66.

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1903. M. GUILLAUME GRANDIDIER. Contribution a l'etude de l'Epiornis de Madagascar.

In: Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Acad. Sc., Paris 1903 (pp. 1-3 in separate copy.)

1903. G. GRANDIDIER. Note au sujet du squelette de l'_Aepyornis ingens_.

In Bull. Mus. Paris 1903, pp. 318-323, with figures.

1903. PAUL CARIE. Observations sur quelques oiseaux de l'ile Maurice.

In Ornis XII, p. 121-128.

(We are informed that neither _Palaeornis echo_--sub nomine _eques_--nor _Nesoenas mayeri_ are extinct.)

1905. A. H. CLARK. Extirpated West Indian Birds.

In Auk 1905, pp. 259-266.

1905. A. H. CLARK. The Lesser Antillean Macaws.

In Auk 1905, pp. 266-273.

1905. A. H. CLARK. The West Indian Parrots.

In Auk 1905, pp. 337-344.

1905. A. H. CLARK. The Greater Antillean Macaws.

In Auk 1905, pp. 345-348.

1905-1906. SIR WALTER BULLER. Supplement to the "Birds of New Zealand."

Two volumes.

(Though containing very interesting notes on extinct and threatened birds, these two volumes are rather disappointing. They contain very little that is new, and are mainly composed of quotations from other people's writings or letters. Buller's former great book on the Birds of New Zealand was a most important and creditable work, though not without shortcomings. Our knowledge of New Zealand Birds might have been brought up to date in his supplement, but we cannot say that this has been done properly, and errors are frequent.)

1906. BALDWIN SPENCER. The King Island Emu.

In The Victorian Naturalist XXIII (1906), pp. 139, 140.

(_Dromaius minor_ described.)

1907. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. On Extinct and Vanis.h.i.+ng Birds. A short Essay on the Birds which have presumably become extinct within the last 500 years, and also of those birds which are on the verge of extinction, including a few which, though not yet so far gone, are threatened with extinction in the near future.

In Proceed, of the IV Intern. Ornith. Congress, London 1905, pp.

191-217.

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LIST OF PLATES.

1. _Fregilupus varius_. From the plate in the "Volume Centenaire,"

Mus. Hist. Naturelle, Paris.

2. 1. _Foudia bruante_. From the figure in Daubenton's work.

2. _Necropsar roderica.n.u.s_. Made up from description.

3. _Necropsar leguati_. From the type specimen in Liverpool.

3. 1. _Geospiza magnirostris_. From the type specimen in London.

2. _Geospiza strenua_. Head. From specimen at Tring.

3. _Nesoenas mayeri_. From specimen in the British Museum.

4. _Chaunoproctus ferreorostris_ [male] [female]. From the pair in the British Museum.

4. 1. _Hemignathus ellisia.n.u.s_. After a drawing from the type in the Berlin Museum.

2. _Heterorhynchus lucidus_. From a specimen in the Paris Museum.

3. _Psittirostra psittacea deppei_. From the type in the Tring Museum.

4. _Ciridops anna_. From a specimen in the Tring Museum.

4A. 1. _Moho apicalis_. From specimen in the Tring Museum.

2. _Chaetoptila angustipluma_. From specimen in the Tring Museum.

5. 1. _Miro traversi_. From skin in the Tring Museum.

2. _Traversia lyalli_ [male] and [female]. From the type specimens in the Tring Museum.

3. _Bowdleria rufescens_. From a skin in the Tring Museum.

5A. _Siphonorhis america.n.u.s_. From skin in the British Museum.

6. 1. _Nestor norfolcensis_. From the plate in the Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum.