. Bird-lore . RECONSTRUCTED SKELETON OF DIATRYMA STEINI.(Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History) X , ■ ig6 Bird - Lore nearly 7 feet tall. The massive neck was surmounted by a great head 17 incheslong with a powerful deep compressed beak and strong lower mandibles. Thelegs were of moderate length and stockily built, but the wings were reduced to apoint where they could have been of but little use to the bird, even in living birds the Cassowary furnishes the closest parallel in wing reduction. Diatryma has no near living relatives. The peculiar South AmericanSeriema sh
. Bird-lore . RECONSTRUCTED SKELETON OF DIATRYMA STEINI.(Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History) X , ■ ig6 Bird - Lore nearly 7 feet tall. The massive neck was surmounted by a great head 17 incheslong with a powerful deep compressed beak and strong lower mandibles. Thelegs were of moderate length and stockily built, but the wings were reduced to apoint where they could have been of but little use to the bird, even in living birds the Cassowary furnishes the closest parallel in wing reduction. Diatryma has no near living relatives. The peculiar South AmericanSeriema shows some general resemblances, especially in the skull and pelvis,but the Seriema is a smaller bird and has the power of flight. Of the livingflightless birds, the Ostriches, Rheas, and Cassowaries, there is a similarityin the reduced wings but there the resemblance stops. Among the extinct birdsthe Patagonian Phororhachos with its small wings and large powerful skullresembles Diatryma both in size and propo
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