S “: *. 
| Biss ANALLANTOIDIENS. 
I. Barrac 
ae, Traldion, Cécilies, Perennibranches, Lepidosiren. 
I. Fisuss. ‘ 
tia tai Poissons osseux, Cyclostomes, Amphioxus. 
2. Noti s of the Fossil Bones of the Ancient Birds of New Zea- 
land, (in Dee dated Jan. 19 and 26, 1848, from Dr. G. A. Manre.h 
to the Senior Editor.) —The collection of eight hundred fossil bones— 
all, the boties of birds (with a single exception, the femur of a quadru- 
ped, probably a dog)—is the most interesting and extensive that has 
been sent from New Zealand to Europe, and probably from any part of 
the world. Dr. Mantell submitted the bones to the examination of Prof. 
Owen, who had made the seine his own by his former beautiful me- 
; irs 0 on the Dinornis apteryx. Mr. Owen is expected to draw up a 
art on the bones, for the Zoclogieal tpaiety. He had already de- 
kull is prolonged below the foramen magnum in.a very 
manner, for the —a of ‘powerful muscles, by 
dibles were acted u 
ye (Paleo-apteryx) is a nod fh more allied to the Ap- 
is the Dinornis. ‘The Notornis (the term signifying south- 
sa new genus of Rallide, aah related to a living genus of 
nd. ‘There are also mandibles of a oe of Nestor, (a 
parrot,) a genus still existing in New 
preservation of the bones is remarkable ; they a 
i sent. They are light ae 
the 
The ¢ walla is offered for sale to the British sega: To fo m it 
must have been a work of great labor, exposure, and even da anger 3 the 
: were found in places distant from any English gin. and 
they had to be brought on men’s shoulders through untracked forests, 
lakes, moors,” 
celebrated artist, formerly employed . Agassiz. 
' am Walter aiatalh ‘from w ~ ‘Sag he ta Pipa was obtained. 
