Definition of Notornis mantelli

1. Noun. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.

Exact synonyms: Notornis, Takahe
Generic synonyms: Rail
Group relationships: Genus Notornis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Notornis Mantelli

Notemigonus crysoleucas
Nothofagus
Nothofagus cuninghamii
Nothofagus dombeyi
Nothofagus menziesii
Nothofagus obliqua
Nothofagus procera
Nothofagus solanderi
Nothofagus truncata
Nothosauria
Notoedres cati
Notomys
Notonecta
Notonecta undulata
Notonectidae
Notornis mantelli (current term)
Notoryctidae
Notoryctus
Notoryctus typhlops
Notostraca
Notowitz
Notropis
Notropis atherinoides
Notropis cornutus
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
Notts
Nou Camp
Nouakchott
Noughties

Literary usage of Notornis mantelli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological by Zoological Society of London Committee of Science and Correspondence, Committee of Science and Correspondence, Zoological Society of London (1850)
"REMARKS ON Notornis mantelli. BY J. GOULD, FRS (Aves, PI. XXI.) Dr. Mantell having kindly placed his son's valuable acquisition in my hands for the purpose ..."

2. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Notornis mantelli, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, pi. The acquisition of a new species is always a matter of great interest; but when, ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1854)
"That the gigantic Moa is extinct, I have not the smallest doubt; but it is still probable that a few more living specimens of the Notornis mantelli may yet ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"T. Jeffery Parker, University of Otago, New Zealand, a notice of the arrival there of the skin and following parts of the skeleton of a Notornis mantelli, ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854)
"have seen a large Notornis mantelli. This bird is two feet high, and such an animal was caught alive in 1850,—which time and ..."

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