Abstract
A grant was made by the Royal Society in the year 1884 to Professor J. T. Parker, of Dunedin, for the study of the development of Apteryx , Sphenodon and Callorhynchus . As Sphenodon does not occur near Dunedin, but is found chiefly on outlying islands belonging to the province of Auckland, at the opposite end of the colony, Professor Parker invited me to join him in the investigation of this form. We gathered from what had been written on the natural history of the tuatara, as well as from oral information obtained from those who were best acquainted with the New Zealand fauna, that the month of February was probably the time at which the tuatara bred.
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