Big goose book: an addenum

[Stephan Pickering <stefanpickering2002@yahoo.com>]

Pat Vickers Rich...she set the fire a little earlier
than 1979. In looking through my library, I discovered
I forgot to mention her panoramic 1973 work:
The history of Australia's non-passeriform birds. Part
I. Antarctic dispersal routes, plate tectonics, and
the origin of Australia's non-passeriform avifauna.
Part II. The Dromornithidae, a family of large extinct
ground birds endemic to Australia: systematics and
phylogenetic considerations. Ph.D. dissertation,
Columbia University, 1-1049 [in 3 vols.]
The latest finds -- I trust they will find skulls --
whet one's appetite for glimpses into post-K/T
theropod radiation in the region. The moas, to be
sure, receive much of the attention (beginning with
Richard Owen's still readable monographs) due to
wonderfully preserved "mummies" etc. The
Dromornithidae are a little more fragmentary, but no
less key to understanding population dynamics and the
processes of extinctions.
Perhaps, Indiana University will organize a supplement
to the two volumes on moas and these taxa, listing all
of the known specimens, museum locations, and keyed to
publications since the 1840s.

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