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Transactions. — Zoology. 



Palapteryx plernis. 



Pal. dromioides, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. iv., p. 1 

 (1850), in part. 



Figures. — Foot, Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. li. (as dromioides). 



Length of the ilium, 13-5in. ; breadth of sacrum, 4-6in. ; 

 depth of pelvis, 5-6in. Length of middle toe, T'oin. Breadth 

 of anterior border of sternum, 6-8in. ; across ends of lateral 

 processes, 6-8in. Length of lateral processes, 4in. 



Distrihition. — Found sparingly over the South Island, but 

 everywhere rare. There were a few bones in the swamps at 

 Glenmark and Hamilton. 



This species is rather larger and stouter than P. dromioides, 

 but with a more slender femur, which approaches that of 

 Mcgalaptcryx licctori. The femur from Glenmark ascribed by 

 Professor Owen to S. rheides no doubt belongs here. The 

 sternum which I have placed with this species also comes 

 from Glenmark. It is on the pattern of the sternum in 

 Syornis, but has coracoid pits ; possibly it may belong to 

 D. struthioidcs , but appears to be too small for that species. 

 The pelvis is from the Manuherikia, Otago, and is in the 

 Wellington Museum. If I am ^Yrong in associating this 

 sternum and pelvis with Pala/pteryx, the generic characters 

 will, of course, have to be altered. 



Genus ANOMALOPTEEYX. 



Dinornis (part) of Owen ; AnomaloiAeryx of Eeichenbach. 



Sk^dl large, very convex. Breadth at the squamosals 

 about one and a half times the height from the basi-temporal. 

 Length from supra-occipital to nasals rather more than the 



