New Caledonia / 1989
Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia / Jean Christophe Balouet and Storrs L. Olson
Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia / Jean Christophe Balouet and Storrs L. Olson
The Smithsonian catalogs Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia / Jean Christophe Balouet and Storrs L. Olson as electronic resources in its Birds, Fossil records.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
Cave deposits in New Caledonia have produced fossils of 32 species of nonpasserine birds. Of these, 11 are extinct and known only as fossils. The giant galliform Sylviornis neocaledoniae is the only one of these to have been described previously. The following new species are described herein: Accipiter efficax, Accipiter quartus, Megapodius molistructor, Caloenas canacorum, Gallicolumba longitars