72 
AVES. 
Casuarius sp. from New Guinea, remarks on ; A. B. Meyer, SB. Ak. 
Wien, Ixix. 1, pp. 216-218. 
Dinornithidjj. 
Haast, Julius. Researches and excavations carried on in and near the 
Moa-bone Point Cave, Summer Road, in the year 1872. Christ- 
church, N. Z : 1874. 8vo, pp. 1-22. 
The bones discovered were those of Moas, and also of recent species. 
. Remarks on the extinct birds of New Zealand. Ibis, 1874, pp. 
209-220. 
Refers the allies of Dinornis to three separate genera, viz., Palapteryx, 
Meionornis, and Euryapteryx, the two latter being proposed for the first 
time. 11 species of these extinct gigantic birds are admitted. 
Dinornis. Remarks upon its footprints and recent extinction ; T. H. 
Cockburn-Hood, P. R. S. Edinb. viii. (1873-74) pp. 236-240. 
DromfOrnis, sp. ? (foss.). No descriptive determination arrived at, but 
vertebral fragments of a bird eyidently allied to Dromornis have been 
discovered. G. Kreftt, Geol. Mag. 1874, p. 46. 
Cnemiornis calcitrans belongs to the Natatores. J. Hector, Tr. N. Z. 
Inst. vi. pp. 76-84, pis. x.-xiv.a. 
Apterygid.®. 
Apteryx mollis and A. fusca, spp. nn.. New Zealand; T. H. Potts, 
Zool. (s. s.).1874, pp. 4014 & 4015. 
Apteryx haasti [Zool. Rec. ix. p. 60], notes on ; G. D. Rowley, P. Z. S. 
1874, p. 498. 
ODONTORNITHES. 
ICHTHTORNITHES. 
Odontopteryx toliapicus^ g. & sp. nn. (foss.), from the London Clay ; 
R. Owen,.J. G. Soc. xix. (1873), pp. 611-522, pis. xvi. & xvii. This re- 
markable pseudo-toothed bird, alike unique in certain cranial characters 
and mandibular bony denticles, is supposed to be most nearly allied to 
the Totipalmate and Lamellirostrate families of the Natatores, its precise 
affinity being, however, doubtful, on account of the imperfect condition 
of the only example known. While offering marked differences in its 
non-socketed teeth, it nevertheless temporarily may be ranged with 
Marsh’s fossil genus Ichihyornis [Zool. Rec. x. p. 74], from the American 
Cretaceous strata. [See “ Anatomy.”] 
