PROCEEDINGS 
Or THE 
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
January 3, 1882. 
Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. W. A. Forbes exhibited and made remarks on the horns 
shed by the male Prongbuck (Azéilocapra americana) living in the , 
Society’s Gardens since December 1879, which had been dropped, 
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 and the same individual Moa that had reached England) 
had been offered 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 
1 See Mr. Forbes’s article, P. Z. 8, 1880, p. 540. 
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