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bird alive for nearly a fortnight, while in less than another two 

 years additional information {op. cit. 1837, p. 24) came from Mr. T. 

 K. Short to the eftect that he had seen two living, and that all Yarrell 

 had said was substantially correct, except underrating its progressive 

 powers. Not long afterwards Lord Derby received and in March 

 1838 transmitted to the same Society the trunk and Adscera of an 

 Apteryx, which, being entrusted to Prof. Owen, furnished him, in 

 conjunction with other specimens of the same kind received from 

 Drs. Lyon and George Bennett, with the materials of the masterly 

 monograph laid before the Society in instalments, and ultimately 

 printed in its Transactions (ii. p. 257, iii. p. 277). From this time 

 the whole structure of the Kiwi has certainly been far better known 

 than that of nearly any other bird, and by degrees other examples 

 found their way to England, some of Avhich were distributed to the 

 various museums of the Continent and of America.^ 



In 1847 much interest was excited by the reported discovery 

 of another species of the genus {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. 51), and 

 though the story was not confirmed, a second species was really soon 

 after made known by Gould {torn. cit. p. 93 ; Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. 

 p. 379, pi. 57) under the name of Apteryx oweni — a just tribute to 

 the great master who had so minutely explained the anatomy of 

 the group. Three years later Mr. Bartlett drew attention to the 

 manifest difference existing among certain examples, all of which 

 had hitherto been regarded as specimens of A. australis, and the 

 examination of a large series led him to conclude that under that 

 name two distinct species were confounded. To the second of 

 these, the third of the genus (according to his views) he gave the 

 name of A. mantelli {Proc. 1850, p. 274),^ and it soon turned out 

 that to this new form the majority of the specimens already 

 obtained belonged. In 1851 the first Kiwi known to have reached 

 Europe alive was presented to the Zoological Society by Mr. Eyre, 

 then Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand. This was found to 



^ lu 1842, according to Broderip (Penny Cyclopsedia, xxiii. p. 146), two 

 skins had been presented to the Zoological Society by the New-Zealand Com- 

 pany, and two more obtained by Lord Derby, one of which he had given to 

 Gould. In 1844 the British Museum possessed three, and the sale catalogue of 

 the Rivoli Collection, which passed in 1846 to the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 at Philadelphia, included a single specimen — probably the first taken to America. 



- For a wholly insufficient reason, and ignorant of the circumstances of the 

 case, Dr. Sharpe has attempted, in the Proceedings of the Wellington Philosophical 

 Society for 1888 (p. 6), to abolish this name, and to substitute one of his own 

 conferring. I myself can testify to the fact that Mr. Bartlett gave the name A. 

 mantelli to the foi-m from the North Island, of which examples were then com- 

 paratively common in England, leaving the name A. australis to that of the 

 South Island, of which only two specimens were at the time known. The differ- 

 ence between the two forms was at that time as clear to him as it is to any of us 

 now. 



