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Show PROCEEDINGS OP THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OP 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 (Antilocapra 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 observations1. 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 construction of a road in Nelson province, South Island of N e w 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 framework of one and the same individual M o a 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 a°*e, of this 1 See Mr. Forbes's article, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 540. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1882, No. I. 1 |