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obtained, and its large size, the specimen is probably 

 referable to Pachyomis elepluintopus. It is fully as large 

 as No. A. 100, but differs considerably in contour ; being 

 also markedly different from No. A. 102. 



Walter Mantell Collection. Purdiased, about 1855. 

 32039 *. Six considerably smaller sesamoids ; from Euamoa. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 

 A. 101. Four sesamoids ; locality unknown. 



Presented hj Sir E. Owen, K.C.B. 



A. 221. Two medium-sized sesamoids ; probably from the North 



Island. TV 1 ■ i 



iVo history . 



c. Feathers. 

 A. 108. A series of nineteen feathers belonging to one of the 

 smaller species ; from a cavern in New Zealand. These 

 specimens are much smaller than the one figured by Owen 

 m his 'Extinct Birds of New Zealand,' pi. cxiv. fig. H. 

 Several of them exhibit their aftershafts. 



Purchased from Sir W. L. Buller, 1888. 

 A. 104. Four feathers, of the same approximate size as the pre- 

 ceding ; locality unknown . One shows a very large after- 

 shaft. By exchange with Sir E. G. Loder, Bart., 1887. 



d. Eggs. 



A. 222. An imperfect egg, restored in plaster, probably from Wain 



{Fig.) gongoro, North Island. Figured by Owen in his ' Extinct 

 ards of ^ew Zealand,' pi. cxv. fig. 1, where it is pro- 

 visionally assigned to Dinornis crassus. The shell is ab- 

 solutely thinner than in the smaUer eggs of the Ostrich 

 and Its external surface smoother ; in both of which re- 

 spects it resembles the egg of Apteryx. 



? Mantell Collection. 



A. 222a. Fragments of another egg, mounted in plaster; from the 

 same locality. As restored this specimen is somewhat 

 longer and narrower than the preceding, and thereby 

 more like the egg of Apteryx. ? Mantell Collection. 



A. 222 b. Fragments of a third egg, also mounted in plaster so as 

 to restore the original contour; from the same locality 

 The contour as restored is more rounded than in the pre 

 ceding specimens. '^ Mantell Collection. 



