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LITERATURE REFERRING TO EXTINCT BIRDS.
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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, Turdus 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 illustrations 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 Institute 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 espèces d'oiseaux actuellement éteintes qui se trouvent représentées dans les collections du muséum d'histoire naturelle. In: Centenaire de la fondation du muséum d'histoire naturelle. Volume commémoratif publié par les professeurs du Muséum. 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. Théodore Sauzier.
In Trans. Zool. Soc. London XIII, pp. 281-302. Pls. XXXIII-XXXVII.
(Strix sauzieri, Astur alphonsi, Butorides mauritianus, Plotus nanus, Sarcidiornis mauritianus, Anas theodori, etc.)