556 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 
Among other numerous works of Owen are:—Memoir on the 
Pearly Nautilus, 1832; Memoir on a Gigantic Extinct Sloth, 1842; 
Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, 1843-6; History of British Fossil 
Mammals and Birds, 1846; On the Archetype and Homologies of the 
Vertebrate Skeleton, 1848; On the Nature of Limbs, 1849; On 
Parthenogenesis, 1849; History of British Fossil Reptiles, 1849-51 ; 
Principles of Comparative Osteology, 1855; Paleontology, 1860 &c.: 
Megatherium, 1861; On the Aye-Aye; On the Extinct Marsupials of 
England, 1877, Xe. 
Owen has received numerous acknowledgments of his scientific 
merits. From the British Government he has received a pension; and 
Her Majesty the Queen has granted him a residence in Richmond 
Park; and in January of last year, 1884, he received the honour of 
knighthood. The King of Prussia in 1851 bestowed upon him the 
distinction of “Chevalier of the Order of Merit.” Heis one of the 
eight Foreign Associates of the French Institute; and in January, 
1879, he was elected a foreign member of the Berlin Academy of 
Sciences. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of London since 
1834; and is connected with most of the learned societies at home 
and abroad. The honorary degrees of D.C.L. of Oxford and LL.D. of 
Edinburgh have been conferred upon him. Though full of years and 
honour Sir Richard Owen still continues his invaluable contributions 
to scientific Societies. As late as April 21st of this year we find him 
communicating a paper on “the structure of the heart in Ornithor- 
hyncus and in Apteryx” to the meeting of the Zoological Society of 
London. His published work thus extends continuously over a 
period of fifty-five years. 
R. G. 
OOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND.* 
BY T. H. POTTS. 
Family Herons—Ardeide. 
Genus—Ardea. 
69. Ardea alba, L. 
White heron, White crane, Kotuku.—This heron is usually 
gregarious; I have rarely known of single families. It builds a 
platform nest on trees; the stronger or earlier breeders occupy the 
higher branches. The nest is firmly made of sticks well interlaced, 
on this platform without softer covering three or four eggs are laid; 
these are oval or rather long ovoid; pale bluish green; in length 
two inches, breadth one inch seven lines. Season—November, 
December, and January. On 13th December, 1871, I counted twenty 
nests in a heronry up the Waitangi-tuna river, these were in close 
association with the nests of the little black shag. 
*Continued from p, 511. 
