Re: Big goose book: an addenum

["Fred Ruhe" <fredruhe@xs4all.nl>]

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From: "Stephan Pickering" <stefanpickering2002@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Cc: <farlow@ipfw.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Big goose book: an addenum


> 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.
>
Well, very soon we will all have Trevor Worthy and Richard Holdaway's book
on New Zealands (avi-)fauna, which will contain a lot of information on the
Moa's. A book by Pat Rich on the Australian Thunderbirds will be welcomed by
me!  __________________________________________________
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