N.Z. BIRDS.
POWER OF fLIGHT. 1 ■ . ■' •• ■ ■■ •• ■ . The loss of &*pampi:*iM9\!& in <<*£ fain New; Zealand bird*.-Jβ demonstrated In a display, pVepeM'iVthe Canterbury Museum, which* now on exhibition at the Auckland War-Memorial Museum. Ta this dfeplay the wing of typical flying Hrds is contrasted with the flipper .of penguins; with the moderately large but aselesn wing of wekae or woodhens; and With the wing stump of kiwie. . In the ' penguin the breaetbdn* •* Iβ fceply keeled, large breast muscles being ■•quired to drive the flippers when under water, bat in the wcka and kiwi the keel feathers have almost disapparently through dfeuee. This exhibit ie one of a eerie? exfcttiged between New Zealand museum* eder a Carnegie echeme intended to fcnionstrate modern ateihode to die-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 23
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