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Post by another specialist on Jul 25, 2008 7:17:01 GMT
 Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907) |
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Post by another specialist on Aug 22, 2008 7:12:01 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 19:01:29 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 19:02:01 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 19:02:37 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 19:03:08 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Dec 24, 2008 9:45:52 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 23, 2009 18:54:56 GMT
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Post by Sebbe on Apr 28, 2015 20:26:36 GMT
Captive birds on Dutch Mauritius: bad-tempered parrots, warty pigeons and notes on other native animalsDuring the occupation of Mauritius by the Dutch in the seventeenth century, live dodos and other animals were transported to the east and west as curiosities and gifts by the Dutch East India Company. How these animals managed to survive these journeys, when human casualties on-board ship were so high, has remained a mystery. Here, we present for the first time a translation of the recently discovered report of Johannes Pretorius, who stayed on Mauritius from 1666 to 1669. Pretorius kept a number of now extinct birds in captivity, which was probably an experiment to ascertain their captive requirements prior to transportation. He also provides the first ecological details of some of the now-extinct birds and Mauritian giant tortoises, the impact of introduced animals, and highlights how little of the interior of Mauritius had actually been explored during this time. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WnFVArrgx5iAKTXkS7cM/full#
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Post by koeiyabe on Dec 1, 2015 13:21:54 GMT
 The illustration is incorrect. The rail in the center is illustrated as "Mauritius Rail, Lived in Mauritius, Extinct in 1675" in Japanese. In the 1990s, there were the similar illustrations of the rail from several sources in Japanese. I first knew the rail was totally red by reading sources from overseas in the 2000s. "Living Things Vanished from the Earth (in Japanese)" by Toshio Inomata (1993) from above to below with Reunion Starling and Mascarene Parrot Newton's Parakeet, Red Rail (wrong illustration), Mauritius Blue Pigeon Antanartia borbonica mauritiana, Salamis augustina vinsoni, Libythea cinyras |
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Post by surroundx on Sept 10, 2016 15:12:09 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jul 3, 2019 0:47:29 GMT
Systematics, morphology and ecology of rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with one new species JULIAN PENDER HUME Abstract Five species in five genera of extinct endemic rails have been described from the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues: the Mauritian Red Rail or Poule Rouge Aphanapteryx bonasia; Mascarene Coot or Poule d’eau Fulica newtonii; which occurred on Mauritius and Réunion; Réunion Wood Rail Dryolimnas augusti; Réunion Gallinule or Oiseaux bleu ‘Porphyrio caerulescens’; and Rodrigues or Leguat’s Rail Erythromachus leguati. All are known from fossil remains and/or from contemporary accounts and illustrations. A sixth species of rail Dryolimnas sp. nov. is described herein from fossils from Mauritius, but was not unequivocally previously reported in the contemporary literature. This paper provides an analysis of the Rallidae of the Mascarene Islands based on existing and newly discovered fossil remains, and details historical reports and accounts. Comprehensive osteological descriptions and synonymies are also included. Their ecology and extinction chronologies are interpreted from historical evidence. The relationships of Aphanapteryx and Erythromachus are unresolved, having clearly been isolated for a considerable time; the middle Miocene is the earliest their ancestors could have arrived on the Mascarenes, but this may have happened more recently. Mascarene derivatives of Fulica, Porphyrio and Dryolimnas are of much more recent origin, and appear to have originated in Africa or Madagascar. All terrestrial rails on Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues, were probable victims of cat predation following their historic introduction to the islands, whereas over-hunting by humans was probably the primary cause of extinction of ‘Porphyrio caerulescens’ on Réunion. The only extant rail on the Mascarenes today, the Madagascar race of Eurasian Moorhen Gallinula chloropus pyrrhorrhoa, is a recent arrival, having colonised Mauritius and Réunion after the extinction of Fulica newtonii. Keywords Aves, Mascarene rails, Rallidae, Aphanapteryx, Erythromachus, Dryolimnas, Porphyrio, Gallinula, Leguatia, extinction, affinities, ecology, sexual dimorphism mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4626.1.1 |
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Post by surroundx on Feb 23, 2020 0:51:06 GMT
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