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Transactions. — Zoology. 



pi. Ixxvii., and pi. cxiv., fig. 1 (as crassus) ; sternum, pi. Ixxii. 

 Eestoration, pl. cviii., and pl. cxiii., fig. 2 (as crassus). 



Breadth of skull at temporal fossae, 2-2in. to 2-lin.; 

 at post-frontal processes, 3-45in. to Sin. Length of lower 

 jaw, 5-25in. to 4-8in. Total length of the head, about 

 5-5in. Length of ilium 19in., of ischium 9in. ; breadth of 

 the sacrum, 10-25in. to lOin. ; depth of pelvis, 7in. to Gin. 

 Post-axial tarsal with a length of from 2-5in. to 2in., and 

 greatest breadth l-25in. to lin. Length of middM toe, 8-5in. 

 to 7in. 



Distribution. — South Island, from Takaka, near Nel- 

 son, to Otago ; the type is from i\.wamoa, near Oamaru. 

 Most abundant in Otago, and comparatively rare at Glen- 

 mark. No. 1 is a specimen from a cave in the Waitaki 

 Valley, now in the Otago Museum ; Nos. 2 and 3 are 

 from Glenmark. The cranium figured in Ext. Birds of 

 N.Z., pl. cxiv., fig. 1, w^as obtained by me in the sand- 

 hills at the mouth of the Shag Eiver, and sent to the 

 British Museum. 



The femur from Waikouaiti ascribed by Professor Owen to 

 S. crassus belongs here, as also do the skulls described by 

 him under the same name. 



