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OF THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



January 3, 1882. 



Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in tbe Chair. 



Mr. "W. A. Forbes exhibited and made remarks on the horns 

 shed by the male Prongbuck (Aniilocapra americana) living in the 

 Society's Gardens since December 1879, which had been drojjped, 

 one on November 15 and the other on November 24, of 1881. This, 

 it was believed, was the first instance on record of one and the same 

 individual of this species having shed its horns in consecutive years, 

 though that this event took place periodically had been rendered 

 nearly certain from previous observations'. 



Professor Owen, C.B., F.R.S., read the twenty-third of his series 

 of memoirs upon the extinct birds of the genus Dinornis and its 

 allies. 



The subject of this memoir had been discovered, during the con- 

 struction of a road in Nelson province. South Island of New Zealand, 

 in a cavern of that remote district. Along with the skeleton was found 

 the ossified windpipe and some small smooth pebbles lying in the 

 position of the gizzard. The skeleton (the most complete frame- 

 work of one find the same individual Moathat had reached England) 

 had been oifered for sale, and, on the recommendation of the author, 

 had been purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum, and was 

 being exhibited (articulated) in the Museum of Natural History, 

 Cromwell Road. 



The bones showed the maturity, if not the old age, of this 

 ' See Mr. Forbes's article, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 540. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1882, No. I. 1 



