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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Hector, James. Notes on the Moa-bones in the New Zealand 
Exhibition of 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 749-751. 
This paper contains a list of the various remains, hones, or 
egg-shells of different species of Dinornis exhibited as above 
mentioned. The dimensions of the specimens in this magni- 
ficent collection are given in a table; and though the nomen- 
clature is not to be implicitly relied upon, it appears that the 
following species were represented : Z). giganteus, D. didiformiSi 
D. dromceoideSj D. ingens, D. crassus, D. struthioides, D. ciirtus, 
D. ingenSj var. robustus, and D. casuarinus. There seems to be 
abundant evidence of the contemporaneous existence of at least 
some of these huge birds and the present race of men in New 
Zealand. 
Dinornis rohustus, its feathers described and figured. W. S. Dallas, P. Z. S, 
1865, pp. 265-208 ; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. xvi. pp. 66-69 ; extract, 
Ann. Sci. Nat. iv. p. 292. 
Dinornis ingens, an egg supposed to belong to this species exhibited. S. 
Stevens, P. Z. S. 1805, pp. 617, 618 ; Hector, op. cit. p. 750. Cf. Zool. 
pp. 9454, 9455. 
Cnetniornis is the name of a proposed new genus of extinct birds from New 
Zealand, having a remarkable antero-proximal tibial process. C. calcitrans 
is the species on which it is founded. It is about the size of Casuarius ben- 
netti. II. Owen, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 438. [The paper will be printed entire in 
the ^ Transactions of the Zoological Society.’] 
Struthio camelus. The muscular mechanism of its leg elaborately described, 
S. Haughton, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 3rd ser. xv. pp. 262-272, pis. vi., vii. The 
young figured, J. Wolf, Zool. Sketches, 2nd ser. 
