struthious

• “And two oddballs: struthious: ostrich-like formic: ant-like”

  Breakfast in Bed

• “In these Dinosauria we find skeletal characters unlike those of ordinary (_i. e._ carinate) birds, but closely resembling in certain points the osseous structure of the struthious birds.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “If it was that of the struthious birds, how did the pterodactyles and carinate birds independently arrive at the very same divergent structure?”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “It must have been that of the struthious birds or that of the carinate birds, or something different from both.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “Thus a difficulty presents itself as to the explanation of the three following relationships: -- (1) That of the Pterodactyles with carinate birds; (2) that of the Dinosauria with struthious birds; (3) that of the carinate and struthious birds with each other.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “Finally, if it was something different from either, how did the carinate birds and pterodactyles take on independently one special common structure when disagreeing in so many; while the struthious birds, agreeing in many points with the Dinosauria, agree yet more with the carinate birds?”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “One such reason is the way in which struthious birds are, or have been, distributed around the antarctic region: as the ostrich in Africa, the rhea in South America, the emeu in Australia, the apteryx, dinornis, &c. in New Zealand, the epiornis in Madagascar.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “Nevertheless, the view has been put forward and ably maintained by the same Professor, [54] as also by Professor Cope in the United States, that the line of descent from reptiles to birds has not been from ordinary reptiles, through pterodactyle-like forms, to ordinary birds, but to the struthious ones from certain extinct reptiles termed”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “If it was that of the carinate birds, how did the struthious birds and”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “Until two or three hundred years ago, the coast-plains of Madagascar were trodden by the great struthious bird, the Æpyornis, apparently the most gigantic member of the avi-fauna of the world, and whose enormous eggs probably gave rise to the stories of the Rukh of the "Arabian Nights.”

  The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1

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