Re: NEORNITHINE PHYLOGENY etc / Gondwanan groups

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Despite Eric Lurio,

  There are so very few cases of tinamous ever being considered
non-ratites that it is not worth bringing up ... however,
non-volant ratites far outnumber the three tinamous genera and
their species, a total of five species compared to the 9 moa
genera, some with more than two species like *Dinornis* and
*Euryapteryx*, the elephant bird and however many species I
forget were there (*Aepyornis*), three species of kiwi
(*Apteryx*) three species of rhea (*Rhea*), two or more of emu
(*Dromaios*), three of cassowary (*Casuarius*) and until very
recently, two of ostrich (*Struthio*) that even when not
counting the major extinct genera, still out-number the tinamou species.

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Jaime A. Headden

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhr-gen-ti-na
  Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Pampas!!!!

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