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Identifier: transactionsofro71roya (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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lowed the flocks of Moas, feedingeither upon the carcases of the dead birds, or killing the young and disabledones. Another bone which belongs to the same species is a rib. It is the thirdrib on the right side, the first after the pleurapophyses or two floating ribs,and articulates with the hsemapophysis or sternal rib, and through the latterbone with the sternum. PI. XL, fig. 5, represents in natural size this well preserved bone, of whichonly at b the upper portion of the epipleural appendage is broken off. Thecoalescence of this latter portion of that bone, which is a well marked peculiarityof raptorial birds, is well shown in this specimen, thus offering additionalevidence as to the specific character of the specimen under review. Two other bones, found close to each other in the same locality, andbelonging without doubt to the same skeleton, are full of suggestive interest,as they, better than any other portion of the skeleton could do, exhibit the TRANS. N.Z. INSTITUTE,V0L.t7R.X
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