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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2005 12:18:57 GMT
Here is a picture, a painting of Paul Gauguin from 1902, which is refered to Porpyhrio paepae: www.criptozoologia.org/gauguin01.jpgand the bird allone: www.criptozoologia.org/gauguin.jpgAs You can see the bird has an entirely green head and a green back, also the bill and the feet are red. The Porphyrio paepae was said to be blue with a yellow beak and yellow feet. Whatever ? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2005 12:31:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2005 12:35:46 GMT
This picture shows another kind of bird which almost looks a little like the tooth-billed pigeon of Samoa (in the middle) also the white Porphyrio-like bird can be seen (left): www.artchive.com/artchive/g/gauguin/where.jpgWhat could this be ? |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 5:58:09 GMT
Porphyrio paepae
Steadman 1988
Holocene of Tahuata and Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, sc Pacific Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: femur
Secondary materials: Paratype: pelvis, tibiotarsi, tarsometatarsi, carpometacarpus, synsacrum, femora
David W. Steadman,
A new species of Porphyrio (Aves: Rallidae) from archaeological sites in the Marquesas Islands
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101 (1988): 162-170
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 5:58:58 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 5:59:40 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 6:00:35 GMT
  pic found by noisi |
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 15:02:18 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 26, 2007 8:32:30 GMT
 Porphyrio paepae Steadman 1988 Holocene of Tahuata and Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, sc Pacific Ocean Primary materials : Holotype: femur Secondary materials : Paratype : pelvis, tibiotarsi, tarsometatarsi, carpometacarpus, synsacrum, femora P_paepae David W. Steadman, A new species of Porphyrio (Aves: Rallidae) from archaeological sites in the Marquesas Islands Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101 (1988): 162-170 www.manu.pf/E_X.html |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 27, 2007 8:00:19 GMT
# Hiva Oa flightless bird (Marquesas Islands OCEANA): A flightless bird reported from Hiva Oa in the Marquesas. It was seen by people such as Thor Heyerdahl and several reputed ornithologists. The creature is said to resemble the takahe, a flightless relative of coots with a rich purple plumage, except that it has no green in the plumage and has a yellow beak and feet, as opposed to the red beak and feet of a takahe. Members of the takahe's genus are found throughout Western Polynesia, and sub-fossil bones of one species (Porphyrio paepae) are known only from Hiva Oa. It seems a safe bet, hell, a sure thing that the Hiva Oa flightless bird is P. paepae. However, according to the locals they were wiped out, so we may never prove that they survived to the 20th century. www.angelfire.com/bc2/cryptodominion/birdnotfly.html |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 27, 2007 8:03:48 GMT
Gauguin: Bird artist L'Oiseau magazine, No. 64, contains a fascinating article about a bird, now extinct, but of which we seem to have a portrait, thanks to the post-Impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin. The story starts when David W. Steadman of the New York State Museum discovered the bones of an unknown species of flightless rail on Hiva-Oa, one of the Pacific Marquesas Islands. He named the new species Porphyrio paepae, a member of the swamphen/gallinule family, its closest living relation being the very rare Takahe Porphyrio mantelli of New Zealand, 3200 km to the west. The bones were about 700 to 1000 years old, but there were tantalising suggestions that the species had survived until much more recently, the explorer Thor Heyerdahl describing a sighting he had of a flightless bird on Hiva-Oa in 1937 as possibly this species, while the French explorer Francis Mazière relates in 1957 that when he showed a picture of a Takahe to some natives of the island, they said that it was the same as the bird they used to know as the koau, but which had now disappeared due to over-hunting. The artist Paul Gauguin moved to the South Pacific in the 1890s, and many of his best known paintings date from that period; in fact he spent the last two years of his life, until his death on 8 May 1903, on Hiva-Oa. In 1902, he painted 'Le sorcier d'Hiva-Oa', now in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Liège, Belgium. A detail of this work clearly shows a Purple Gallinule type bird, with large red bill, purplish underparts and greenish back, caught in the jaws of a dog. The authors of this article – Michel Raynal, Jean-Jacques Barloy and Françoise Dumont – advance the hypothesis that Gauguin probably drew this scene from a real-life event in which he had participated, and that the species certainly survived until quite recently. The authors note that the early specimens of Takahe were all brought in by dogs, and that in southern Spain, labradors were specially trained to catch the Purple Gallinules that still live in that area. www.kjhall.org.uk/lponews2002.htm |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 27, 2007 8:07:06 GMT
This picture shows another kind of bird which almost looks a little like the tooth-billed pigeon of Samoa (in the middle) also the white Porphyrio-like bird can be seen (left): www.artchive.com/artchive/g/gauguin/where.jpgWhat could this be ?  |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 27, 2007 8:08:58 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Apr 5, 2008 21:19:43 GMT
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Post by adzebill on Aug 12, 2011 19:02:39 GMT
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