2 M. TACZANOWSKI ON BIRDS COLLECTED [Jan. 3, 
smallest known representative of its kind. The skull was larger in 
proportion to the body than in either Dinornis maximus or D. ingens, 
but manifested no modification approaching to the shape of the bill 
in Apteryx; it retained the generic characters shown in all the 
larger kinds of Dinornis. The sternum was strictly Dinornithic. 
The chief osteological distinction was a greater number of cervical” 
vertebree ; but the author remarked that no other skeleton had 
been discovered, or recovered from swamp-deposits, under cireum- 
stances precluding the oversight of two or more vertebree from the 
middle of the long neck, where missing ones might be indicated by 
size or by joints. The metatarsus gave no indication of an articular 
surface tor a back toe, yet the bones of this minute digit of both feet 
were transmitted; hence the amalgamation of Palapteryx with 
Dinornis received additional support. The size of the bird was 
about that of the Dodo. 
On the grounds detailed in the memoir the author referred its 
subject to the genus Dinornis, and to a new species proposed to be 
called D. parvus. 
In the remote, well-wooded, and sparsely populated district of the 
southern division of New Zealand, Prof. Owen was of opinion that a 
recovery of a still-existing specimen might be less unlikely than 
that of the Notornis, also originally recognized by fossil remains, 
This memoir will be printed entire in the Society’s ‘ Transactions.’ 
The following papers were read :— 
1, Liste des Oiseaux recueillis par M. Stolazmann au Pérot 
nord-oriental. Par L. Taczanowsx1, C.M.Z.S. 
[Received November 28, 1881] 
(Plates I. & IT.) 
Les oiseaux de cette liste ont été collectionnés pendant les vingt 
mois depuis le 13 septembre de 1879 jusqu’en avril de 1881, dans 
les localités suivantes :— 
a. Localités situées sur le versant occidental de la chaine orientale 
des Cordili¢res (systtme du Haut Maraiion). 
Chachapoyas. Chef lieu du département Amazonas, élevé 4 7600 
pieds au dessus du niveau de Vocéan, situé dans le syst¢me de Rio 
Utcubamba, un des affluents de la rive droite du Marafion. Cette 
localité, dépourvue de foréts, appartient 4 la région connue par les 
habitants sous le nom de la Sierra. La contrée est en grande partie 
couverte de paturages et de broussailles, et ce n’est que dans le fond 
des ravins quw’on rencontre la végétation un peu plus riche, composée 
principalement d’un arbuste epineux nommé ‘‘zarza’’ entremélé 
d’aulnes, en y formant des surfaces plus ou moins vastes de brous- 
sailles basses, presque impénctrables, parsemées ci et 1a de groupes 
