192 Dr A. B. Meyer on 



the South Island. It had been offered to him for £50, and 

 he sent the letter on to me. I obtained further particulars 

 from the owner and found that the egg was too much broken 

 to be worth buying." I do not know the present owner of 

 this specimen ; it may be that mentioned in ' Nature/ Ixvi. 

 p. 160, 1902 ; compare sub No. 3. 



5. According to Tr. Pr. N.Z. Inst. xxxi. p. 738, 1899, " the 

 greater part of the egg-shell of a Moa " was found in sandy 

 soil near Clyde, Central Otago, South Island, and received 

 by the Otago Museum in August 1898. "Another specimen 

 was found with it, but was accidentally destroyed." To this 

 fragment we may perhaps also refer Dr. Benham's (Tr. 

 Pr. N.Z. Inst, xxxiv. p. 150, 1902) remark as to two or 

 three more or less damaged specimens u that have been 

 through his hands," viz., that they all belong to the genus 

 Euryapteryx. 



6. Sir Walter Buller knows of an imperfect specimen in 

 the collection of Mr. Augustus Hamilton, Registrar of the 

 Otago University in Dunedin. 



7. The same authority informs me that Mr. Turton, of 

 Dunedin, possesses a much broken egg, which was obtained, 

 as he believes, in the Queenstown district, Ota^o. 



8. There is one half of an egg in the Colonial Museum at 

 Wellington. According to Sir James Hector (P. Z. S. 1867, 

 p. 991), two were discovered in the alluvium of the Upper 

 Clitha Plains, Otago, South Island, but only one nearly 

 complete side could be put together, consisting of about 

 twenty fragments ; this egg measured 242 by 153 mm. 

 One had contained " bones of an embryo chick " (comp. 

 P.Z. S. 1867, p. 991 ; Tr. Pr. N.Z. Inst. iv. pp. 110 & 363, 

 pi. vi. p. 187; and Owen, Extinct Birds N.Z. 1879, p. 319). 



9. The egg in the Museum of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons of England, mentioned in the beginning of my 

 communication, was " cracked and pieced together," and 

 measures " 216 by 142 mm.," for which particulars I am 

 indebted to Prof. C. Stewart. I could not inspect it 

 closely, as the opening of the case was beset with some 

 difficulties. Judging from outside, the egg did not give the 



