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Specimens of “Dromæus ater.”

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IN reference to Prof. Giglioli's note (suprà, page 102), I may perhaps be allowed to remark that Bullock's Museum appears to have contained a specimen of the extinct Dromaeus ater. The twelth edition of the “Companion” to that Museum, published in 1812, has the following entries (page 80):—

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NEWTON, A. Specimens of “Dromæus ater.”. Nature 62, 151 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062151a0

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