36o NATURAL SCIENCE. Nov.. 1894. 



body, we might justly have expected something more worthy of the 

 name of flight than this, though possibly it may not have been of a 

 much higher order than that of Opisthocomus, which is said never to 

 have been seen to take a more extended journey than that of a few 

 yards at one time. The presence of the claws, too, has done much 

 to injure its reputation as a flyer — a factor, as we have seen, which 

 probably ought not to have been allowed to weigh at all. 



W. P. Pycraft. 



