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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 401, 14 January 1904, Page 8

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l* w * Dto'eaTerr HaAgfo " ■fcf information of discovery Btagouia. or rather, of thr south- ■ Part of the Argentine Republic. kt of the remains of an -extinct : H|*t, in aire, ontrival* any of the Bfc known to science, either tiring Hpxtioct, has just reached the chief Btkologiat of the Smithsonian in■catioD, who regards the discovery Eflße of the first importance. The roils, thru far recehred aire to the .scientific party explor|&l«n|?_ the eastern foothills o| the ■r* rnn?e unearthed frodi the Eta <>f th- : -rtiitry age the skulfcbf Kthev a; ;'<rst took to be kgigaTi■Lrrf of yr :. out on iubscquen< Kn.-iton they unearthed other Ks that atxmetl them to: ..change,,: Kir ftrvt vrewf-'aad reach-tJieconcln-" rat that the bird must ft'eV^'been'.:-*'. ■per" fowl.: The size, of this lextincf>'< Rtf ..which the discoverers named the Khoranvchis.*' is. according to the something amazing, it haying ||en-at least a fourth larger than the Hjpflo** of Madagascar, a bird now exjyfrcf/ but which until the finding of Bs 'Patagouian monster held', first wefor size in the list of birds livK .The government or■jhoJßjirists are anxiously. awaiting Kroner detail* of tWiiinteresSng dis-■flfcrvS-pOO* dejpilefa J"JT on the prld's diamond ' trftdjl with a stock pij&Kitjg. Abont 5,000 * and Wishers, principally in tee stones for market. KMl'jexprditiori to Kolyusk. Russia, is < King made by Russian scientists in orHer to bring to St. Petersburgthe mamwhich .has" recently been discovKed. ft is unique of its kind, its hair, won and fiesh being- entirely preserved, ■ltd there are remains of undigested Bpod in its stomach.