Extinct Birds

Chapter 9

2. Head of _Nestor productus_. From a specimen in the Tring Museum.

7. _Lophopsittacus mauritia.n.u.s_. From ancient drawing and description.

8. _Necropsittacus borbonicus_. From a description.

9. _Mascarinus mascarinus_. From the drawing in the Volume commemoratif, Centenaire Mus. Paris.

10. _Ara tricolor_. From specimen in the Liverpool Museum. {xxviii}

11. _Ara gossei_. From Gosse"s description.

12. _Ara erythrocephala_. From Gosse"s description.

13. _Anadorhynchus purpurascens_. From description.

14. _Ara martinicus_. From description.

15. _Ara erythrura_. From description.

16. _Conurus labati_. From description.

17. _Amazona violaceus_. From description.

18. _Amazona martinicana_. From description.

19. _Palaeornis exsul_. From the plate in the "Ibis."

20. _Palaeornis wardi_. From the plate in the "Ibis."

21. _Hemiphaga spadicea_. From the specimen in the Tring Museum.

22. _Alectroenas nitidissima_. From the plate in the Volume commemoratif du Centenaire, Mus. Paris.

23. _Pezophaps solitaria_. Made up from descriptions and ancient drawings.

24. _Didus cucullatus_. From drawings.

24A. _Didus cucullatus_. See explanation, page 172.

24B. _Didus cucullatus_. See explanation, page 172.

24C. _Didus cucullatus_. See explanation, page 172.

25. _Didus solitarius_. From a picture supposed to be taken from a living specimen in Amsterdam, but beak and wing restored.

25A. _Didus solitarius_. After Dubois" description.

25B. 1, 2, 3. _Pezophaps solitarius_. Reproduction of ancient figures, see page 177.

4, 5, 7, 8. _Didus solitarius_. Reproduction of ancient figures, see page 177.

{xxix} 26. 1. _Hypotaenidia pacifica_. From Forster"s unpublished drawing in the British Museum.

2. _Pennula sandwichensis_. From the unique specimen in the Leyden Museum.

3. _Pennula millsi_. From skin in the Tring Museum.

27. _Nesolimnas dieffenbachi_. From the unique specimen in the British Museum.

28. 1. _Cabalus modestus_. From skin in the Tring Museum.

2. _Coturnix novaezealandiae_. From skin in the Tring Museum.

29. _Aphanapteryx bonasia_. From ancient drawing.

30. _Erythromachus leguati_. Made up from ancient outline figure and description.

31. _Leguatia gigantea_. Made up from ancient figures and descriptions.

32. _Apterornis coerulescens_. From description.

33. _Notornis alba_. From the plate in "Ibis," 1873.

34. _Notornis hochstetteri_. From the plate in the Zeitschr. f.d. ges.

Ornithologie.

35. 1. _Aechmorhynchus cancellatus_. From the plate in Seebohm"s "Charadriidae."

2. _Prosobonia leucoptera_. After the unpublished drawings in the British Museum, but the artist has not shown the white patch on the shoulder.

36. _Camptolaimus labradorius_. From the two specimens in the Tring Museum.

37. _Aestrelata caribbaea_. From the type specimen in the Dublin Museum.

38. _Alca impennis_. From the stuffed specimen in the Tring Museum.

39. _Carbo perspicillatus_. From a specimen in the British Museum.

40. _Dromaius peroni_. From the type of the species in the Paris Museum.

41. _Megalapteryx huttoni_. Restored from osteological remains and feathers.

42. _Dinornis ingens_. Restoration from skeleton and some feathers.

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