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more imperfect or reconstructed specimens. In the published 

 list of eggs of JEpyornis {I. c. p. 4) only thirty-three 

 specimens were enumerated, but I have since heard of three 

 more, which may be mentioned here incidentally: — 



One in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 England, where I saw it in the year 1901. 295 by 

 190 mm. 



One in the Bristol Museum, formerly in Sir Greville 

 Smith's collection (see ' Nature/ vol. lxv. p. 324, 

 1902) . 



One sold by auction at Stevens's Rooms, London, in June 

 1902, for .€40— and brought by Mr. Edw. Gerrard of 

 London. 314 by 216 mm., circumference 862 by 

 707 mm. (See also 'Nature/ lxvi. p. 160, 1902.) 



I am indebted to Sir Walter Buller for several notes, of 

 whieh u;>e has been made in the following paragraphs ; and 

 I shall feel quite satisfied if my unpretentious communication 

 rescues from oblivion some further specimens of Moa's eggs, 

 if they by chance have escaped my notice. 



1. George Dawson Rowley (Brighton) figured in the year 

 1878 the fine Moa's egg in his possession (Orn. Misc. iii. 

 p. 214, pi. cxivj. It is, according to the drawing, 252 by 

 178 mm., and has also been figured by Sir Richard Owen in 

 his Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand, 

 1879, pi. cxvii. p. 318. It is referred to Dinornis ingens 

 Owen (Dinornis nova-zealandue Owen) and was found in 

 1859 or previously in the South Island. Mr. Rowley about 

 six years later paid €100 for it (not €.200 as erroneously 

 stated, Abh. Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, vol. ix. no. 7, 1901, 

 p. 1, note 1). The egg is nearly perfect except for " a hole 

 on the underside" (Rowley, /. c. p. 244). The present 

 owner is, I am told, Mr. G. F. Rowley, St. Neots, Hunting- 

 donshire. It has been mentioned by A. R. Thomson, ' The 

 Story of New Zealand/ i. p. 33, 1859; compare also J. D. 

 Enys, Tr. Pr. N.Z. Inst. iv. pp. 363 & 403, 1871. 



2. The Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand, received 

 in July 1899 "a complete Moa's egg" (Tr. Pr. N.Z.Inst, xxxii. 



