. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . FlG. 108.— Dinornis giganteus, X 3V From a photograph of a skeleton inChristchurch Museum, New Zea-land. had indeed lived there notso very long before. The Fig 107 Wingless Birds of New dinornis, as one was called,Zealand: The Giant Moa (Pa-lapteryx) and the Tiny apteryx. was twelve feet in height The moa is no longer to be found alive. (Fig. I08), and ltS Colossal 142 LIVING GIANTS drum stick, which was five feet long, was as ponderousas the thigh bone of a large horse. In Madagascar another huge bird, the epinornis, has beenfound. Its egg was s
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . FlG. 108.— Dinornis giganteus, X 3V From a photograph of a skeleton inChristchurch Museum, New Zea-land. had indeed lived there notso very long before. The Fig 107 Wingless Birds of New dinornis, as one was called,Zealand: The Giant Moa (Pa-lapteryx) and the Tiny apteryx. was twelve feet in height The moa is no longer to be found alive. (Fig. I08), and ltS Colossal 142 LIVING GIANTS drum stick, which was five feet long, was as ponderousas the thigh bone of a large horse. In Madagascar another huge bird, the epinornis, has beenfound. Its egg was six times the size of an ostrich egg,hence one would have been a burden for a strong manand could have afforded a meal for twenty or thirty giants became extinct but a few years ago, com-paratively speaking — a fact proved by the discovery of thefeet with the dried skin still clinging to them and hugeeggs with the gigantic chick still in them. Many rumorshave been circulated to the effect that these birds still livein Madagascar,
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