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deposits in close proximity, from which I recovered more or less complete 
skeletons of several hundred individuals of Moa. None of these bones presented 
the slightest indications of having been interfered with by human agency, and 
none of them were water worn. There were, on the other hand, abundant 
evidences, to those extracting the remains, that the bodies of these birds—along 
with which occurred the bones of numerous other flightless as well as flying 
species—were intact when buried. Hundredweighths of gizzard-stones, 
fragments of Moa egg-shells, as well as the undigested vegetable contents of the 
stomach, which were lying in situ relatively to the breast bone, were disinterred 
from these two shallow ‘pits. These Moas, therefore, all inhabited this part of 
the country, and were probably living in herds at the same, or nearly the same, 
period. Their limb bones were afterwards laid out by me in a long shed, and I 
was able to graduate the majority of them, from small to large, in a single con- 
tinuous series, through which, although its extremities were, of course, distinctly 
different, it was impossible to draw a line which would separate one species from 
another by the characters of size or form, yet they belonged to quite a dozen 
Owenian species, and half as many genera. The same may be truly said of the 
crania. After an attentive study of the extensive Moa collections in New 
Zealand, the Glenmark, Enfield and others formerly under my charge in Christ- 
church, and also those in Wellington, Napier, and Dunedin, as well as, more 
recently, the vast Moa treasures in London, I cannot resist the conviction that 
far too many species have been described (often upon fractions of an inch on the 
proportions of the bones), and that something like the restraint in this respect 
might have been exercised in describing the Dinornithide and A pyornithide 
that has been done in the case of the bones of Pezophaps solitarius, in which a 
‘‘marvellous variability . . . in almost every bone of the skeleton” is, to 
use Professor Newton’s words, also displayed. In the present Catalogue I have 
grouped round one typical species in each of the genera recognised by the late 
Professor T. Jeffery Parker, F.R.S. (Trans. Z.S. XIII. pp. 373-451), the numerous 
forms whose names most frequently occur in the literature of the Dinornithide. 
—(H.O.F.). 
DINORNITHINA. 
DINORNIS, Owen. 
maximus, Owen. Sundry bones. 
Dinornis nove-zealandie, Owen; D. giganteus, Owen; D. altus, Hutton ; 
D. ingens, Owen ; D. struthioides, Owen ; D. gracilis, Owen ; D. firmus, 
Hutton; D. robustus, Owen ; D. potens, Hutton ; D. strenuus, Hutton ; 
D, excelsus, Hutton ; T'ylopteryx torosus, Hutton. 
ANOMALOPTERYGINZA. 
PACHYORNIS, Lydekker. 
elephantopus (Owen). 
P. immanis, Lydekker ; P. rothschildi, Lydekker (immature bone) ; Dinornis 
crassus, Owen (in part) ; Huryupteryx compacta, Hutton; P. inhabilis, 
Hutton; P. validus, Hutton; Euryapteryx ponderosa, Hutton; P. 
valgus, Hutton. 
MESOPTERYX, Hutton. 
casuarina (Owen). 
Dinornis didinus, Owen; D. dromeoides, Owen; D. huttonii, Owen ; 
Palapteryx plenus, Hutton, 
ANOMALOPTERYX, Reichenb. 
didiformis, Owen. 
Dinornis parvus, Owen; Anomalopteryx fortis, Hutton; Dinornis curtus, Owen ; 
D. oweni, Haast ; D. geranoides, Owen ; A. antiquus, Hutton.* 


* Associated with the remains of the A. antigua was an unmistakable femur of 
Apteryx of the species australis probably. 
