TY - JOUR
AU - Allis, Thomas
AB - In the course of last summer, Mr. Allis had an opportunity, on the occasion of Dr. Gibson and his brother, who is a resident in New Zealand, visiting the Museum of the Yorkshire Philoso- phical Society, to suggest to those gentlemen how desirable it would be if the Museum could obtain some bones of the Moa, of which it possessed only a single small fragment. Mr. Allis was, at the same time, anxious to procure a specimen of the Apteryz, with a view of his tracing out the rudimentary wing-bones in that bird. A few weeks since, Mr. Allis was informed by Dr. Gibson that his brother had suceeeded in obtaining a perfect skeleton of the Moa, as well as an Apteryx and some of its eggs, all of which had been forwarded to England. This collection reached the York Museum at the end of May, and, when examined, was found to contain a very nearly complete skeleton of a gigantic species of Dinornis, together with numerous bones belonging to four distinet young birds of the same species The best-marked of these bones were an ischium, an os pubis, a few ribs, and a small cruciform bone (the immature 
TI - Notice of a nearly Complete Skeleton of a Dinornis, presented by Dr. Gibson to the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
JO - Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London Zoology
DO - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02005.x
DA - 1864-09-01
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