. The Avicultural magazine. Birds; Cage birds. Ma7iteirs Apieiyx at the Zoological Gaj'dens. 315 New Zealand, and named Apteryx atistralis. This specimen being still preserved in the Iviverpool Museum. There are four species recognised as distinct at the present ;,w^\\\Q\Y A. australis a reddish brown bird, from the South Island, described by Shaw in 1813 ; A. oweni, also of the South Island, much greyer than the others, described by Gould in. MANTELL'S APTERYX. (From Mivart's Elements of Ornithology). 1847 ; A. viantelli a blackish bird inhabiting the North Island, described by Bartlet
. The Avicultural magazine. Birds; Cage birds. Ma7iteirs Apieiyx at the Zoological Gaj'dens. 315 New Zealand, and named Apteryx atistralis. This specimen being still preserved in the Iviverpool Museum. There are four species recognised as distinct at the present ;,w^\\\Q\Y A. australis a reddish brown bird, from the South Island, described by Shaw in 1813 ; A. oweni, also of the South Island, much greyer than the others, described by Gould in. MANTELL'S APTERYX. (From Mivart's Elements of Ornithology). 1847 ; A. viantelli a blackish bird inhabiting the North Island, described by Bartlett in 1850 ; and A. haasti of the mountain ranges of the South Island, described by Potts in 1871. The Apteriges are generally admitted to be related to the RatitcB or Struthious birds, though they differ very markedly in several ways from these, perhaps the most notable feature which separates them from all other birds is the position of the nostrils which are situated at almost the extremity of the bill. Sir Walter Buller has given a long account of these birds in his Birds of Neiv Zeala?id (2nd ed. II., p. 313), and Rowley has also gone into the subject thoroughly in his Orinithological Miscellany (Vol. I. p. 2), but the most up-to-date paper is that by the Hon. Walter Rothschild in the Novitates Zoologicce for 1899, pp. 361—386, and the following extract will be read with interest. He writes:—"The Kiwis are very swift runners, and can make very good use of their extremely powerful legs. They are always ready to kick at any object ayproaching them closely. In kicking they strike forward like an Knm or an Ostrich, but I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Avicultural Society. [Ascot, Berkshire, etc. : Avicultural Society, etc. ]
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