_Dinornis_ Owen.
_Palapteryx_ Owen, part.
_Palapteryx_ Hutton.
_Tylapteryx_ Hutton.
_Megalapteryx_ Haast.
_Anomalopteryx_ Lydekker, part.
*_Mesopteryx_ Hutton.
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_Cela_ Reichenbach.
_Dinornis_ Owen, part.
_Meionornis_ Haast.
_Anomalopteryx_ Lydekker.
_Mesopteryx_ Parker.
_Emeus_ Reichenbach.
_Euryapteryx_ Haast.
_Syornis_ Hutton.
_Dinornis_ Owen, part.
_Pachyornis_ Lydekker.
_Palapteryx_ Haast.
_Dinornis_ Owen, part.
_Euryapteryx_ Hutton.
_Palaeocasuarius_ Forbes.
*_Megalapteryx_ Forbes, part.
_Anomalopteryx_ Reichenbach.
_Meionornis_ Haast.
_Dinornis_ Owen, part.
I have adopted Professor Parker's classification in the genera, only
substituting _Cela_ Reichenbach for _Mesapteryx_ Hutton, which is a synonym
of _Megalapteryx_ Haast. As to the species I have used my own judgment; I
felt obliged to name a number of species acknowledged by Parker and
Lydekker but not named, because this system of indicating species by the
letters A, B, C, &c., which has crept into our nomenclature, will make all
understanding impossible, as not always the same species is denoted by the
same letter. A few of these species will naturally later have to be sunk,
as some have been founded on skulls and others on leg bones, or so, which,
when we get perfect individual skeletons may prove to be identical, but I
do not think these will be many.
Besides a number of imperfect eggs, particulars of which will be found in
Dr. A. B. Meyer's article in the Ibis, 1903, pp. 188-196, there are known
two perfect Moa eggs and one almost perfect one.