438 PROF. OWEN ON FORSTER’S PENGUIN. May 23 
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all the West-Indian Islands, and had been several times in Dominica. 
But it was only in last year that he saw one of these Parrots for the 
first time. The only inhabitant of the island who had one domesti- 
cated was the Governor; and although Mr. Bernard offered a large 
price to the native sportsmen, it was only at the end of twelve 
months that they had succeeded in obtaining the young one now in 
the Society’s possession. The natives of Dominica called this bird 
** Ciceroo.” 
The tenth of a series of memoirs, by Professor Owen, on the extinct 
Dinornithine Birds of New Zealand, was read. The present memoir 
contained the description of parts of the skeleton of a flightless bird, 
indicative of a new genus and species of the family, which Professor 
Owen proposed to call Cnemiornis calcitrans. The materials upon 
which the present paper was based had been gathered from the bot- 
_ tom of a fissure in a limestone rock at Timaru, in the Middle Island 
of New Zealand, by Dr. David S. Price. The Cnemiornis was sup- 
posed to have been of about the same stature as Bennett’s Cassowary. 
he name chosen bore relation to the remarkable size of the pro- 
cesses of the tibia in this form. 
This paper will be printed entire in the Society’s ‘ Transactions.’ 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On THE Morsip APPEARANCES OBSERVED IN THE DIssECTION 
OF THE PENGUIN (APTENODYTES FORSTERI). By Pror. 
Owen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., ere. 
The Penguin was a male, but with the testes small, as at the non- 
breeding season. The coats of one of the large abdominal air-cells 
were thickened, and roughened by granular deposits of a caseous, 
quasi-strumous nature; and larger flattened masses of the same 
substance were scattered in the connecting substance of the diseased 
air-cell with the thoracic abdominal parietes. These appearances 
indicated old-standing disease. But the more immediate cause of 
death was inflammation of the coats of the stomach and adjoining 
peritoneum or air-cells. The stomach—a full oval cavity, about 
6 inches in longest diameter—was distended with a mass of putrid 
yellow-grey pultaceous matter and portions of half-digested fishes. 
It oceupied the hinder and under part of the abdominal cavity, ex- 
tending from the sternum to the pelvis, and so closely adherent to 
the abdominal parietes that its coats seemed, on dissection, to be an 
inner or deep-seated layer of the abdominal muscles. The perito- 
neum, when separated, had a rough or finely gritty or granular sur- 
face, with red vascular inflammatory patches, and was adherent, 
beyond the stomach, to the mass of intestines. 
The contents of the stomach were in so putrid a state as to lead 
to the inference that, for want of power of digestion, the ordinary 
chemical changes had commenced before the death of the bird, and 
been concomitant with, if not the cause of, the inflammation of that 
