Notes by F. W. Hutton:

The green egg-shell, from the cave at Mount Nicholas, proves, on microscopical examination, to have the true Dinornis structure. It is of a rather pale sea-green colour, smooth, but not polished, and covered with irregularly placed shallow rounded pits. The thickness of the shell is 0.04-inch, and the diameter of the egg appears to have been about four inches. The white egg-shell obtained from the same cave also belongs to the Moa. The feathers from this cave are not very well preserved. Most of them are pale yellow-brown, margined with darker, while a few were dark brown. The largest is six and a-half inches. The feathers from the cave near Queenstown are in an excellent state of preservation, much better than any previously obtained, and many have both shafts quite complete. The after shaft is much more slender than the true shaft; but often nearly as long; the barbs gradually get more distant from one another towards the apex, and they are generally opposite on each side of the shaft. I saw no sign in any of the feathers of the barbs near the base being in groups of four or five as described by Mr. Dallas in the “Ann. Natural