HuTTON. — Un the Moas of Neiu Zealand. 



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frontal process broad ; breadth of the temporal fossae, about 

 two-thirds that of the orbits. The post-axial tarsal bone is 

 about 2in. in length and lin. in greatest breadth. The length 

 of the ilium is 20-5in. to 18-5in. ; of the ischium, 9-5in. to 

 8-25iu. ; breadth of the sacrum, 8-75in. to 8-5in. ; depth of the 

 pelvis. Sin. to Tin. 



Distribution. — Very common in the peat-beds at Hamilton 

 and Glenmark ; also found in Maori cooking-places at Awa- 

 moa and Shag Point. The femur with fragments of muscle 

 which accompanied the neck with integument, found in Earns- 

 cleugh Cave, belongs to this species. =■- The type is from 

 Waikouaiti. The specimen No. 1 is from Glenmark ; No. 2 is 

 from a leg in the Wellington Museum the locality of which is 

 unknown. 



This species has, like the last, been misunderstood. Pro- 

 fessor Owen gave it its name before he had seen bones of 

 E. clephantoims ; and the tibia and femur which he associated 

 with the metatarsus belonged to a smaller species. These 

 gave the idea that the bird was very robust ; and Sir J. von 

 Haast, as well as myself, placed it close to E. ele2Jhanto2)us. 

 The skull ascribed to this species by Sir E. Owen has been 

 proved, by the skeleton in the Otago Museum, to belong to 

 E. elephantopus , and consequently the skull placed on that 

 species must come here. The femora are difficult to dis- 

 tinguish from those of D. stnithioides on the one hand and 

 E. i)onderosus on the other. 



Syornis casuarinus. 



Dinornis casuarinus, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. iii., p. 307 

 (1846), metatarsus only ; and vol. vii., p. 115, sternum. 

 Si/ornis casuarinus, Eeichenbach, Das Nat. Syst. der 

 V5gel (1850). Meionornis casuarinus, Haast, Trans. 

 N.Z. Inst., vol. vii., pp. 51, 91 (1874). 



Figures. — Metatarsus, Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. xl., fig. 3 ; 

 femur, pi. xxiii., fig. 1 ; cranium, pi. Ixxv. (as rheides) ; sternum, 

 pi. xlviii., and pi. Ixxiii., Ixxiv. (as rheides). 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. iv., p. 112, 



