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the more shallow canal leading to it. In the Dinornis, the breadth 

 and depth of the condyles are equal ; the outer condyle is the broad- 

 est, the inner one is the most prominent ; their articular surfaces 

 are so continuous as to leave no space answering to the intercondy- 

 loid space in the Aptornis, Notornis, &c. The bridge is situated 

 nearer the inner side of the bone, is subtransverse, rather narrow, 

 with a widely elliptical lower outlet opening above the inner condyle. 

 The Gastornis was a bird of the size of the Ostrich, but with more 

 bulky proportions, and in that respect more resembling the Dinornis : 

 it appears to have had nearer affinities with the wading order, and 

 therein, perhaps, to the Rallidce ; but the modifications of its tibia 

 indicate a genus of birds distinct from all previously known genera. 



*• Description of some Mammalian Fossils from the Red Crag of 

 Suffolk." By Prof. Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



The fossils described in this paper were referred by the author to the 

 following genera and species : — Rhirioceros, a species nearly allied to, 

 if not identical with, Rh. Schleiermacheri, Kaup ; from crag-pits at 

 Wolverston, Sutton, and Felixstow, Suffolk. Tapirus priscuSy Kaup ; 

 from Sutton. Sus pal^ochcerus, Kaup ; from Sutton. Sus antiquus, 

 Kaup ; from Ramsholt, Suffolk. Equus : two species, one appa- 

 rently Bq. plicidens, Owen ; from Bawdsey, Suffolk. Cervus dicra- 

 nocerus, Kaup ; from Ipswich and Sutton. Cervus megaceros, from 

 Felixstow. Ursus, sp. indet., less than Ur. spelaus. Canis, appa- 

 rently C. Lupus. Felix pardo'ldes, Owen; from Newbourn, Suffolk. 

 Mastodon longirostris, Kaup ; from Sutton, Felixstow, and Ipswich. 

 Ziphius longirostris, Cuv. {Dioplodon Becanii, Gervais) ; Hoplocetus 

 crassidens, Gervais; Balcenodon affinis, Bal. definita, Bal. gibbosa, 

 Bal. emarginata, Owen; and remains of species of Delphinus, of the 

 size of the Grampus. 



The conclusion which the author deduced from the large propor- 

 tion of miocene forms of mammalia, and the very great numerical 

 superiority of individual fossil specimens from the Red Crag refer- 

 able to miocene species, and from the admixture of these fossils with 

 a few eocene and pleistocene species, was that the Red Crag was the 

 debris of former tertiary strata of different periods, and, in a great 

 proportion, of the miocene period. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The British Museum — its Catalogues and accessions in Zoology, 



*' It is with great pleasure," said the Prince Charles Bonaparte, in 

 presenting the Academy of Sciences of Paris with a copy of Dr. Gray's 

 recent * Catalogue of the Tortoises/ " it is with great pleasure that I 

 lay before you this new work on the Chelonian Reptiles, because it 

 is a true model of what the catalogues of great museums ought to be, 

 taking the science at its standing point, and furnishing figures of new 

 or doubtful species and of such as have been ill represented. In 

 one word, it is a work worthy of its author, of the national establish- 



