184 Transactions. — Zoology. 



BlBIilOGEAPHICAr; EeFERENCES TO APTORNIS DEFOSSOE, OwEN. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. v., 1866. 



vol. vii., 1872. 

 vol. viii., 1874. 

 vol. ix., 1877. 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872, p. 24. 

 Owen, Eichard. Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New 

 Zealand, &c. 2 vols. 1879. 



Haast, Julius von. Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and West- 

 land, 1879, pp. 432, 444, 447. 



Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. i., p. 216. 



vol. v., p. 232. 

 „ „ vol. vii., p. 83. 



, „ vol. viii., pp. 68, 71. 



, » vol. xiv., p. 245. 



„ „ vol. XV., p. 526. 



„ „ vol. xxii., p. 545. 



[Note. — Since the above paper was read before the Otago Institute, 

 the Catalogue of the Fossil Birds in the British Museum, by R. Lydekker 

 (London, 1891), has been received from England for the library of the 

 Otago Museum, and on consulting this I find that I have been anticipated 

 by Mr. Lydekker in identifying the vertebra3 of Ajitornis. Had I been 

 able to obtain the catalogue at an earlier date, I should have been saved 

 the trouble of tabulating and arranging the references to the various parti- 

 culars and publications. 



There is probably a misprint in p. 152, line 13, the length of the 

 tibia being given as 285. Judging from my own series of measurements, I 

 should say " 258 " was intended. It is a curious coincidence that the right 

 coracoid (46623) should be anchylosed to the sternum, as in my speci- 

 men A. Mr. Lydekker has been anticipated by Mr. Forbes in his identifi- 

 cation of the coracoid. 



The information about the skulls which compose the figures given by 

 Owen is of interest, and the evidence afforded in corroboration of the 

 details by the perfect specimens from Southland the more valuable. The 

 second reference for specimens Nos. 46578 and 46579 has been omitted, 

 and a few typograpical errors occur. 



I find that the skeleton figured by von Haast in the Geology of 

 Canterbury and Westland is not otidiformis, as stated on the plate, but 

 represents the skeleton of A. dcfossor in the Canterbury Museum. 



I have also seen three skulls of Aptornis in the same Museum, and 

 three in the Colonial Museum, where there are also seven dorsal vertebrte 

 from the Nelson District, and a few other bones of Aptornis.] 



