Extinct Birds Part 6

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1891. FREDERIC A. LUCAS. Animals recently extinct or threatened with extermination, as represented in the collection of the U.S. National Museum.

In Report of the Smithson Inst. (U.S. Nat. Mus.) 1889 (1891!), pp.

609-649, pls. XCV-CV.

(An account of some of the larger animals which have become extinct within historic times, or are threatened with extinction, with reasons suggested for their disappearance.)

1891. HARTERT. Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Museum der Senchenberg.

Naturf. Ges. Frankfurt-a-M.

(_Alca impennis_, _t.u.r.dus terrestris_, _Chaunoproctus ferreorostris_, _Hemiphaga spadicea_ mentioned.)

1891. WILL. DUTCHER. The Labrador Duck. A revised list of the extant specimens in North America, with some historical notes.

In Auk 1891, pp. 301-316, pl. 2.

1894. WILL. DUTCHER. The Labrador Duck. With additional data respecting extant specimens.

In Auk 1894, pp. 4-12.

1892. FORBES, H. O. Preliminary Notice of Additions to the Extinct Avifauna of New Zealand (Abstract).

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. Vol. XXIV, pp. 185-189.

(The editors say that the paper is published in abstract, as it had been impossible to prepare the drawings for its ill.u.s.trations in time.--It is a most pitiful and unscientific proceeding to publish such preliminary abstracts containing insufficiently founded names and complete "nomina nuda" without publishing a fuller account; such, as far as I know, has never appeared.)

1892. H. O. FORBES. _Aphanapteryx_ and other remains in the Chatham Islands.

In Nature, Vol. XLVI, p. 252.

(Short notes on avian remains which, unfortunately, were never properly studied afterwards.)

1892. HUTTON. The Moas of New Zealand.

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst.i.tute Vol. XXIV, pp. 93-172, pls. XV-XVII.

1892. HAMILTON. Notes on Moa Gizzard-stones, t.c. p. 172.

1892. HAMILTON. On the genus _Aptornis_, t.c. pp. 175-184.

1892. HARTLAUB. Vier seltene Rallen.

In: Abhandl. d. Naturwiss. Vereins zu Bremen XII.

1893. H. O. FORBES. A List of the Birds inhabiting the Chatham Islands.

In Ibis 1893, pp. 521-546.

(Notes on the living and extinct forms. The genus _Palaeolimnas_ established. Egg of _Cabalus modestus_ figured, etc.)

1893. W. W. SMITH. Notes on certain species of New Zealand Birds.

In Ibis 1893, pp. 509-520.

(Methods of colonization and their disastrous results to the birds described.)

1893. MILNE-EDWARDS & OUSTALET. Notice sur quelques especes d'oiseaux actuellement eteintes qui se trouvent representees dans les collections du museum d'histoire naturelle. In: Centenaire de la fondation du museum d'histoire naturelle. Volume commemoratif publie par les professeurs du Museum. Pp. 189-252, pls. I-V.

(Only 6 species: _Mascarinus mascarinus_, _Alectroenas nitidissima_, _Alca impennis_, _Fregilupus varius_, _Camptolaemus labradorius_, _Dromaius_ "_ater_," but these beautifully figured and masterly described and discussed.)

1893. SIR E. NEWTON AND GADOW. On additional Bones of the Dodo and other Extinct Birds of Mauritius obtained by Mr. Theodore Sauzier.

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London XIII, pp. 281-302. Pls. x.x.xIII-x.x.xVII.

(_Strix sauzieri_, _Astur alphonsi_, _Butorides mauritia.n.u.s_, _Plotus na.n.u.s_, _Sarcidiornis mauritia.n.u.s_, _Anas theodori_, etc.)

{xxiv} 1893. A. DE QUATREf.a.gES. The Moas and Moa-hunters.

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 17-49.

(Translation of the French article which appeared in the Nos. for June and July of the "Journal des Savants" by Laura Buller.)

1893. PARKER. On the cla.s.sification and mutual relations of the _Dinornithidae_. By T. J. Parker.

In Trans. and Proc. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 1-6, pls. I-III.

1893. F. W. HUTTON. New Species of Moas.

In Trans. and Proc. New Zealand Inst. Vol. XXV, pp. 6-13.

(_Dinornis strenuus_, _Anomalopteryx fortis_, _Euryapteryx compacta_, _Pachyornis inhabilis_, _P. valgus_.)

1893. F. W. HUTTON. On _Anomalopteryx antiqua_. T.c. p. 14, pl. IV.

*1893. R. BURCKHARDT, in Palaontolog. Abhandl. VI, Heft 2, pp. 127-145, Taf. 1-4.

(_Aepyornis_.)

1893. H. O. FORBES. The Moas of New Zealand.

In Natural Science II, pp. 374-380.

1893. A. HAMILTON. On the Fissures and Caves at the Castle Rocks, Southland; with a description of the remains of the Existing and Extinct Birds found in them.

(In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 88-106; with figures.)

1893. A. NEWTON. "Extermination." In A Dictionary of Birds.