_Aepyornis maximus_ I. Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 3,
vol. XIV, p. 209 (1851).
_Aepyornis ingens_ Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, C.R. CXVIII, pp. 122-127
(1894).
This is the stoutest and bulkiest species, though not so tall as _Ae.
titan_. All the largest eggs next to those of _Ae. titan_ must belong to
this species. It will be argued that I have no right to use the name
_maximus_ for this form, but the name of _maximus_ is based on one of the
eggs in the Paris Museum, and as these evidently belong to this form and
not to the form subsequently called _maximus_, I must apply to that the
name of _grandidieri_, given by Mr. Dawson Rowley in 1867 to a portion of
eggshell of the lesser form.