Re: New Zealand's Giant Eagle Showed Rapid Size Gain

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Do you mean the giant putative megapode _Sylviornis neocaledoniae_.
> There was a relative on Fiji, _Megavitiornis altirostris_, also very large
> and also very extinct.

http://www.msstate.edu/dept/biosciences/ee3.pdf has the latter as a pigeon, 
and it's new enough to mention the crocodile *Volia* from the same island. 
The ref is given as pers. comm. T. H. Worthy. 
http://www.rsnz.org/publish/jrsnz/2004/009-lo.pdf, however, calls it a 
megapode and also mentions "a giant flightless pigeon *Natunaornis 
gigoura*".