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good a skull from the North Island, I presume that it came 

 from the South Island. The Hon. W. Mantell informs me 

 that it was not collected by him, and that he knows nothing 

 about its locality. The swelling on the top of the head is 

 greater than in D. gracilis of the North Island. 



Dinornis struthioides. 



D. novce-zealandia, Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1843), p. 8. D. 

 struthioides, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. iii., p. 235 

 (1843); and vol. iii., p. 307, cranium. Dinornis struthi- 

 oides, Eeichenbach, Das Nat. Syst. der Vogel. 

 Figures. — Metatarsus, Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. liv., fig. 4; 

 tibia, pi. Iv., fig. 1 (as gracilis) and fig. 2 ; femur, pi. xxxviii. 

 (as casuarinus), and pi. liv., fig. 1 (as gracilis) and fig. 2; 

 cranium, pi. xvi., figs. 1-4. • 



Breadth of skull at temporal fossa3, 2-4in. to 2in. ; at post- 

 frontal processes, 3-lin. Length of scajDulo-coracoid, 4-oin. 

 Length of ilium 14-75in., of ischium 7-25in. ; breadth of 

 sacrum. Gin. ; depth of pelvis, 6-25in. 



Distribution. — This is one of the few species of moa which 

 have been found in both Islands. The type specimen is from 

 Poverty Bay, but it was scattered sparingly over both Islands 

 from Whangarei and Mercury Bay in the north to Otago in 

 the south, but was nowhere numerous. It occurs in the 

 swamps of Te Ante, Glenmark, and Hamilton, as well as in 

 the Maori cooking-places in the North Island. No. 1 is an 



