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Definition of Notornis
1. Noun. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
Definition of Notornis
1. n. A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.
Definition of Notornis
1. a flightless bird [n NOTORNIS]
Medical Definition of Notornis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Notornis
Literary usage of Notornis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1894)
"notornis*. notornis, Owen, PZS 1848, p. 2 N. mantelli. Range. ... Somewhere in
the neighbourhood of notornis should, I think, come the extinct ..."
2. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"XLIII THE notornis.—Now, to make peace with the rabid scientists, who will, ...
I allude to the notornis. One skeleton is, I am told, in the British Museum; ..."
3. Geological record (1889)
"On the Sternum of notornis, and on Sternal Characters. Proc. Zool. Soc. ...
Parker, TJ Notes from the Otago University Museum, on the skeleton of notornis ..."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"This passage might be applied to notornis Mantelli. Strickland assigned the
Madagascar bird ... He alludes to notornis as compared with Porphyrio ; to the ..."
5. The Voyages Made by the Sieur D. B. to the Islands Dauphine Or Madagascar by [Du Bois] (1897)
"That the Oiseau bleu was bigger than the species of Porphyrio known to us, is an
objection which will fall when we Consider that notornis also exceeds ..."
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