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Definition of Notornis mantelli
1. Noun. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Notornis Mantelli
Literary usage of Notornis mantelli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological by Zoological Society of London Committee of Science and Correspondence, Committee of Science and Correspondence, Zoological Society of London (1850)
"REMARKS ON notornis mantelli. BY J. GOULD, FRS (Aves, PI. XXI.) Dr. Mantell having
kindly placed his son's valuable acquisition in my hands for the purpose ..."
2. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"notornis mantelli, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, pi. The acquisition
of a new species is always a matter of great interest; but when, ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1854)
"That the gigantic Moa is extinct, I have not the smallest doubt; but it is still
probable that a few more living specimens of the notornis mantelli may yet ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"T. Jeffery Parker, University of Otago, New Zealand, a notice of the arrival
there of the skin and following parts of the skeleton of a notornis mantelli, ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854)
"have seen a large notornis mantelli. This bird is two feet high, and such an
animal was caught alive in 1850,—which time and ..."
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