. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . titm$ f $m |baiatttr %mtiM$f Vol. xxv., PL III,. Anoinaiopteryx didifor mis Paeker.—On a Crest of Feathers in certain Moas. o to but smaller and less distinct than those of Mesopteryx,species b, only reaching as far back as the anterior border ofthe post-orbital process, and not extending on to the lacry-mal. Another skull of Anomalopteryx didiformis in Mr. Hamil-tons collection has no trace of the pits ; they are also absentin a skull in the Otago University Museum probably referableto D. torosus; and I have failed to find any trace of them
. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . titm$ f $m |baiatttr %mtiM$f Vol. xxv., PL III,. Anoinaiopteryx didifor mis Paeker.—On a Crest of Feathers in certain Moas. o to but smaller and less distinct than those of Mesopteryx,species b, only reaching as far back as the anterior border ofthe post-orbital process, and not extending on to the lacry-mal. Another skull of Anomalopteryx didiformis in Mr. Hamil-tons collection has no trace of the pits ; they are also absentin a skull in the Otago University Museum probably referableto D. torosus; and I have failed to find any trace of them inthe following species : Dinornis robustus, Owen; Emeus crassus,Owen; Mesopteryx casuarina, Owen; two undeterminedspecies of Mesopteryx, one of which may be M. geranoides,Owen ; Pachyornis ponderosus, Hutton; Pachyornis elephan-topus, Owen, and an undetermined species of the same genus. I think there can be no doubt that the presence of thesepits indicates that the moas in which they occur possessed acrest of stiff feathers in the anterior frontal region. For sometime after coming to this con
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