Re: Big birds (no kidding!)

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

>Titanis
>Phorosrhacos [Phorusrhacus, Phorushracos]
>Psilopterus
>any other Phorusrhachids (-oids)

    Check the archives; I have posted several refs on this. Look under 
Titanis or phorusrhacids.

>Diatryma

    Check the archives again. Look under Takahe & Diatryma.

>A good article on the dodo (no kidding! I need the skeletal info, 
>mainly)

  There are no articles that I can find on this one.

>Dinornis (all the different moa, actually)

    Anderson, A. 1989. Prodigious birds: moas and moa-hunting in New 
Zealand. Cmbridge: Cambridge University Press.


>Aepyornis

   Wetmore, A. 1967. Re-creating Madagascar's giant extinct bird. 
National Geographic 132. 

MattTroutman


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