HuTTON. — On the Moas of New Zealand. 



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Breadth of skull at temporal foss®, l-7in. to l-65in. ; length 

 of ilium, 12-5in. to 12in. ; breadth of sacrum, 4-7in. to 4in. ; 

 depth of pelvis, 5in. to -i-Sin. 



Distribution. — This was the commonest species in the Te 

 Aute Swamp ; and it was also common in the sand-dunes near 

 Wanganui, but rare at Whangarei. The type came from 

 Waingongoro, near "Wanganui. No. 1 are specimens in the 

 Otago Museum collected together at Lyall's Bay, Wellington. 



In Mr. Hamilton's collection from Te Aute there is a 

 broken sternum, intermediate in size between those of G. curtus 

 and A. didiformis, which probably belongs to this species. It 

 is too fragmentary to afford reliable measurements, but it 

 differs from the sterna of both the species just mentioned in 

 having the lateral processes slender, slightly curved, and 

 diverging at a wide angle from the middle line. The cranium, 

 figured on plate xxxi., figs. 4, 5, is from the Bay of Islands; 

 that on plate xlvi., figs. 1-3, is from Wanganui. 



Cela curtus. 



Dinornis curtus, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. iii., p. 325 

 (1846). Cela C2crtus, Eeichenbach, Das Nat. Syst. der 

 Vogel. Dinornis oweiii, Haast, Trans. Zool. Soc, 

 vol. xii., p. 171 (1886), pi. xxxi., xxxii."- 



Figures. — Metatarsus, Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. xL, fig. 6, 

 and pi. Ixxxvii., figs. 7-10; tibia, pi. xxxix., figs. 1-5; femur, 



* Droviornis australis, Owen, was originally called Dinornis oiocnii by 

 Dr. Krefft, but the name was, I believe, only published in a Sydney 

 newspaper. 



