CHAPTER II. 

 PART I. 



PLAN OF ROOM II. SYNOPSIS OP CONTENTS OP ROOM II. MAMMALIAN 



REMAINS MEGALONYX MOA HEXAPROTODOK M YLODON MACRAU- 



CHKNIA SCELIDOTHERICM MEGALOCHELYS STARFISHES CRINOIDKA - 

 MINERALS FOSSIL BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



THE arrangement of the objects in the apartment we shall 

 next survey is but temporary ; some of the cases are empty, 

 and others contain fossil remains of Mammalia, Birds, and 

 Reptiles ; and of Starfishes, and Crinoidea. The subjoined 

 synopsis will therefore suffice to direct the visitor to the spe- 

 cimens most worthy of attention in this miscellaneous col- 

 lection, and our descriptions will embrace but two classes of 

 objects, namely, the fossil Starfishes and Crinoidea in Case G \ 

 and the remains of the Moa or Dinornis, and other extinct 

 birds of New Zealand, contained in Wall-cases B and C, and 

 Table-cases 15, 16, and 17. The latter comprise relics of several 

 extraordinary ornithic types, presenting osteological characters 

 previously unknown in animals of this class, and which de- 

 mand minute examination ; while the geological history of 

 the deposits in which these bones were contained invests the 

 subject with a high degree of interest and importance. 



ROOM II. 



(62 feet long.) 



SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. 

 ORGANIC REMAINS. 



WALL-CASES. These are only partially filled, and the ar- 

 rangement is but provisional. Those on the left, or south 

 side, contain a miscellaneous assemblage of bones and teeth 



