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from the North Island and the egg was found in the southern 

 part of the South Island of New Zealand (something like 500 

 miles away), the statement "some hundred miles" should 

 have been " some hundreds of miles " from his place. 



" Egg 5 " (p. 192) is the same as " Egg 7." It belonged 

 to Miss Turton, who was good enough to deposit it in this 

 Museum; but, on my obtaining the complete egg (No. 2), I 

 returned it to her. It was found at Clyde and Miss Turton 

 lives at Queenstown, hence the confusion. 



"Egg 6" (p. 192).— Mr. Hamilton informs me that the 

 fragments in his possession " are too imperfect to be called 

 an egg." 



Many fragments of eggs of Moas are in the possession of 

 this Museum and of various private individuals in the Colony. 



I may refer here to certain fragments of a green egg-shell 

 found in 1875 by Mr. T. White in a cave near Mt. Nicholas, 

 Otago, which was identified by Capt. Hutton as that of a 

 Moa (see Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1875, p. 101) : these are now 

 exhibited in this Museum. 



Let me add another to the list of eggs given by Dr. Meyer. 

 I have, in addition to egg No. 2, a nearly complete egg, 

 rather larger than it, but broken at one end. It was found in 

 the same locality as Nos. 2 and 3 and by the same individual. 

 It was evidently laid by the same species of Moa as most of 

 the other Otago specimens. The surface of the shell is very 

 little corroded, and shews the typical markings much better 

 than that described by me in 1901. 



Finally, there is a misprint in Dr. Meyer's article (p. 196): 

 the illustration given by Owen is referred to as " plate cxix.," 

 which should read " xcix." 



Yours &c, 



Otago University Museum, W. Blaxland Ben ham. 



Dunedin, N.Z., 

 July 27th, 1903. 



SlKS,— 



In the year 1900 Mr. Harry F. Witherby contributed a 

 very interesting article to ' The Ibis ' (p. 475) on the birds 

 of the Kola Peninsula, Russian Lapland. During our visit 

 to that country this year we met with examples of the 



