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other dimensions were taken from this cast and the feather- 
ing constructed from examination of the actual feathers in 
the British Museum collection. He had other feathers at 
Tring, but these belonged to a smaller species of Moa. The 
shape was modelled from the skeleton combined with 
suggestions from the existing Apteryr and Hmu. He also 
exhibited an Apteryx australis mantelli Bartl. to illustrate 
the contrast between the extinct and living New Zealand 
struthious birds. 
Mr. W. P. Pyorarr expressed his keen appreciation of 
this restoration, remarking that Lord Rothschild had added 
the keystone to the work begun by Owen, and briefly sur- 
veyed the essential facts in regard to the relationship of the 
Moas to the rest of the Struthiones. He further commented 
on the extraordinary interest presented by these birds in the 
matter of their flightlessness, the Moas alone among the 
ostrich-tribe having lost the wing completely. In some 
species even the shoulder-girdle was missing. 
Lord Rotuscuitp also exhibited a specimen of Jfrita 
kowaldi (de Vis) and made the following statement :— | 
In 1898 I described (Bull. B. O. Club, vii. p. 54) a very 
striking and apparently new bird from British New Guinea 
under the name of Jfrita coronata. A few weeks ago 
Professor Neumann called our attention to the fact that it 
appeared to be identical with ‘“ Todopsis kowaldi” de Vis, 
‘Report on Birds from British New Guinea,’ p. 3 (1889). 
Unfortunately there can be no doubt that this is the case, 
though beyond the crown of blue feathers on the head there 
is about as-much resemblance between Todopsis and Jfrita 
as between a Thrush and a Hawfinch. TYodopsis wallacet, 
with which de Vis compared his 7’. kowaldi, is a small bird 
with a long tail and narrow compressed body, the bill is wide 
and flat, whereas that of Jfrita is high and thrush-like. — 
Todopsis has enormous rictal bristles, Zfrita,has short ones ; — 
the front of the tarsus in /frita is covered with large scales, 
while in Zodopsis the tarsal covering consists of an unbroken 
lamina. The tail in Todopsis is long and Lurnesia like, 
