Identifier: emu18aust (find matches)
Title: The Emu
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Australasian Ornithologists' Union Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Australasia Periodicals
Publisher: Melbourne : Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ews of the skull of Nestor notabilis, also a dorsal viewof the articular end of the mandible. They are lithographs, but apparentlyfairly accurate. f See also Blanchard, Des Caracteres Osteologiques Chez les Oieauxde la Famille des Psittacides, Compt. Rend., xliii., p. 1,097, and xlix.,p. 518; Milne-Edwards, Observations sur les Caracteres Osteologiques,&c., Ann. Set. Nat. (6), vi., p. 91. J Shufeldt, R. W., Osteology of Connurus carolinensis, four. Anat.and Phys., Edinburgh, April, 1886, vol. xx., pp. 407-425, plates x. and xi.,figs. 1-18. Shufeldt, R. \V., Osteology of the Psittaci, Ann. CarnegieMuseum, vol. i., pp. 399-421, plates xxi.-xxiv., 1902. Shufeldt, R. W., An Arrangement of the Families and the Higher Groups of Birds, TheAmer. Nat., vol. xxxviii., Nos. 455-456, Nov.-Dec, 1904, pp. 833-857,Boston, 1904, illus. ; in this arrangement the Nestoridce (Psittaciformes : Sub-order xxiii.,. Sub-order xxxiv., Psittaci, Super-family I., Psittacoidce, Thk Emu, Vol. XVIII. PLATE IV.
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Vol. ^Y^^l Shufeldt, Skeleton of Kea Parrot (Nestor notabilis). 2Q The Skull.—While the main morphological characters of thecranium in the. Psittaci are very similar, yet, when we come tocompare this part of the skeleton of the Kea with the craniumof a Macaw, of a true Parrot, a Loriiis, or the hke, it is by no meansdifficult to select a character here or a character there which maynot only be different, but very distinctive. Viewing the cranium of Nestor from above, it is to be noted thatit possesses the broad, smooth, and rounded surface seen in thecrania of the Psittacidce generally.* It is, however, longer thanit is broad, being inclined to be narrow between the orbits, withthe parietal prominences diffuse though well pronounced. Theselatter are practically absent in Amazona, and circumscribed inthe larger Macaws. The superior margins of the orbits are sharp,as is the rule in Parrots generally ; while within their edgesposteriorly we find a row of minute foramina for the transmi

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