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This work contains the proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. This meeting took place from 11th to 16th June 2012 at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, and was organised and hosted by Ursula Göhlich (NHMW, Vienna). Fifty-two participants from 19 countries attended the quadrennial meeting and presented 40 oral talks and 10 posters covering a wide range of topics in paleornithology. Contents vii Preface ix Group photograph xi Cécile Mourer-Chauviré life and works URSULA B. GÖHLICH 1 A new taxon of stem group Galliformes and the earliest record for stem group Cuculidae from the Eocene of Djebel Chambi, Tunisia CÉCILE MOURER-CHAUVIRÉ, RODOLPHE TABUCE, EL MABROUK ESSID, LAURENT MARIVAUX, HAYET KHAYATI, MONIQUE VIANEY-LIAUD, MUSTAPHA BEN HAJ ALI 17 The tarsometatarsus of the Middle Eocene loon Colymbiculus udovichenkoi GERALD MAYR, LEONID GOROBETS, EVGENIJ ZVONOK 23 Galliformes, Upupiformes, Trogoniformes, and other avian remains (?Phaethontiformes and ?Threskiornithidae) from the Rupelian stratotype in Belgium, with comments on the identity of "Anas" benedeni Sharpe, 1899 GERALD MAYR, THIERRY SMITH 37 A review of avian remains from the Oligocene of the Outer Carpathians and Central Paleogene Basin ZBIGNIEW M. BOCHENSKI, TERESA TOMEK, EWA SWIDNICKA 43 A fossil stone-curlew (Aves: Burhinidae) from the Late Oligocene/Early Miocene of South Australia WALTER E. BOLES, MELANIE A. FINCH, RENE H. HOFHEINS, PATRICIA VICKERS-RICH, MARY WALTERS, THOMAS H. RICH 63 Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves TREVOR H. WORTHY, JENNIFER P. WORTHY, ALAN J. D. TENNYSON, STEVEN W. SALISBURY, SUZANNE J. HAND, R. PAUL SCOFIELD 81 A new roller (Aves: Coraciiformes s. s.: Coraciidae) from the early Miocene of the Saint-Gérand-le-Puy area, Allier, France CÉCILE MOURER-CHAUVIRÉ, JEAN-BAPTISTE PEYROUSE, MARGUERITE HUGUENEY 93 A Haematopus-like skull and other remains of Charadrii (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the Early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France) VANESA L. DE PIETRI, MARCEL GÜNTERT, GERALD MAYR 103 A new barn owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae) from the Middle Miocene of the Nördlinger Ries (Germany) with remarks on the history of the owls URSULA B. GÖHLICH, PETER BALLMANN 123 Who discovered the Phorusrhacidae? An episode in the history of avian palaeontology ERIC BUFFETAUT 135 The Early Pliocene avifauna of Langebaanweg (South Africa): a review and update ALBRECHT MANEGOLD, ANTOINE LOUCHART, JULIE CARRIER, ANDRZEJ ELZANOWSKI 153 New finds and revised taxa of Early Pliocene birds from Western Mongolia NIKITA V. ZELENKOV 171 Early Pleistocene fossil birds from Cava Sud, Soave (Verona, North-Eastern Italy) MARCO PAVIA, CLAUDIA BEDETTI 185 Revisiting Asio priscus, the extinct eared owl of the California Channel Islands KENNETH E. CAMPBELL, JR. 195 A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands JULIAN P. HUME 239 Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island ALAN J.D. TENNYSON, R. PAUL SCOFIELD 253 Notes on Pelvic and Hindlimb Myology and Syndesmology of Emeus crassus and Dinornis robustus (Aves: Dinornithiformes) ANDREI V. ZINOVIEV 279 Ontogenetic change of morphology and surface texture of long bones in the Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea, Ardeidae) JUNYA WATANABE, HIROSHIGE MATSUOKA Wien. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. 306 pp., num. figs, hardback gr. 8 [19.5 x 27.5 cm].