HuTTON. — On the Moas of New Zealand. 



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Breadth of the skull at temporal fossae, 2-9m. to 2-7in.; at 

 post-frontal processes, 4-6in. Length of the lower jaw, 7-6m. 

 Length of scapulo-coracoicl, 7-25m. Length of ilium 22in. to 

 21-5in., of ischium 12in. to 10-2in. ; breadth of sacrum, Sin. 

 to 7-5in. ; depth of pelvis, 9in. to Sin, Post-axial tarsal is 

 2-6in. in length, and l-5iu. in greatest breadth. Length of 

 middle toe, ll-5in. to 9-75in. Total length of head, S-5in. 



Distribution. — Found sparingly all over the South Island, 

 but rather more abundantly in Otago than elsewhere. There 

 is a femur from near Greymouth in the Wellington Museum. 

 Bones are found not only in the swamps but occasionally in 

 the Maori cooking-places. No. 1 is from Shag Valley, and 

 No. 2 from Highley Hill, in Otago : both are in the Otago 

 Museum. The type is from Waikouaiti. 



Sir E. Owen originally gave the name D. ingcns, var. ro- 

 hustus, to bones from Waikouaiti, of which the metatarsus 

 was 14-5in. and the tibia 28-75in. in length; but he afterwards 

 transferred the name to larger bones from the same locality, 

 and said that the tibia of his type of D. robustus is 32in. in 

 length."- Under these circumstances it seems best to retain 

 the name for this sxsecies, especially as it is so used in New 

 Zealand. 



In specimen No. 1 the neural spine is single on the fourth 

 and fifth cervical vertebrae. 



Ext. Birds of N.Z., p. 250. 



