The world's birds a simple and popular classification of the birds of the world

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Mantelli's Apteryx or Roa Identifier: worldsbirdssimpl00finn (find matches)
Title: The world's birds a simple and popular classification of the birds of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Finn, Frank
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ound: the Roas (Apteryx mantelli,A. australis), with brown plumage, with lighterlongitudinal streaks, and the Kiwis proper (A.oweni, A. haarsi), with barred grey plumage,coloured much like that of a Plymouth Rock fowl. LiMPKiNS (Aramidcr). Diagnosis.—Large rail-like birds, with the first quillhaving a peculiarly narrowed inner web, and billslightly curved to one side at the tip. Size.—About that of a large fowl. Form.—Bill long, with the nostrils central; jeet withlong shanks ; front toes long, with no webs at thebase, hind-toe rather short; wings of moderatesize ; tail short. Neck and thighs long. Plumage, etc.—General colour brown, with bronzywhite streaks ; no sex-difference or seasonal change. Young.—Downy and active, the down black in colour. Nest.—Open, made of rushes, etc. ^ >— ^ v> x: O S ^ ^ to «S r^ c- >■• !^ ,S: ►—• (/q cr o S I ? S-N 3 2-c/, ^ B>* D- > ^ ? •^^ iTi 5% Q,
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