Postscript to Professor Parker's Paper on the Classification, 

 dx., of the Dinornithidae. 



Since writing this paper I find that further researches have 

 convinced Professor Hutton that he was not justified in 

 definitely assigning a narrow-beaked skull to Emeus and a 

 broad-beaked skull to Pachyornis. I have therefore come to 

 the conclusion that, for the present at any rate, it will cause 

 least confusion to follow Owen and Lydekker in this matter. 

 Thus, in my forthcoming monograph to be published in the 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society (see abstract in Pro- 

 ceedings Zool. Soc, 14th February, 1893), the large narrow- 

 beaked skull called in the present paper Emeus crassus is 

 named, as by Owen and Lydekker, Pachyornis elephantopus, 

 and the broad-beaked skulls here assigned to Pachyornis are 

 referred to Emeus. Thus the names Emeus and Pachyornis, 

 as used in this paper, must be transposed. 



I have also found, from a conversation with Professor 

 A. Newton, at Cambridge, that the names I assigned in the 

 present paper to the sub-families are not in accordance with 

 the rules of zoological nomenclature. The classification 

 adopted in my large paper is therefore as follows : — 



Sub-family a. Dinornithina. 



Genus Dinomis. 

 Sub-family b. Anomalopterygince. 



Genera Pachyornis, Mesopteryx, Anomalopteryx. 

 Sub-family c. Emeina. 



Genus Emeus. 

 April, 1893. 



Postscript to Professor Parker's Paper on the Presence of a 

 Crest in some of the Moas. 



During my recent visit to England I have examined the 

 moa-remains in all the principal museums, and have found 

 feather-pits in two specimens of Dinomis robustus —viz., tlie 

 magnificent individual skeleton from Tiger Hill, Manuherikia, 

 in the Museum of the Philosophical Society, York, and a 

 skeleton from Glenmark Swamp in the Tasmanian Museum, 

 Hobart. The fact that some specimens both of robustus and 

 of ingens (torosus) have the pits, while there is no trace of 

 them in others, certainly points to the crest being a sexual 

 character. 



April, 1893. 



