HuTTON. — On the 2Ioas of New Zealand. 



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Breadth of the skull at the temporal fossae, 2-65in. Length 

 of the scapulo-coracoid, 6-25in. to 5-7m. Total length of the 

 head, 7* 3m. 



Distribution. — The type of the species is from the sand- 

 dmies near Wanganui. It was plentiful in the Te Aute 

 Swamp, and has been also found at Poverty Bay and the 

 Maori cooking-places near Whangarei. The skull referred 

 here is from the Taupo district. The moa bones found by 

 Mr. Weetman on the Great Barrier Island''' belong to a 

 young chick apparently of this species. They consist of a 

 right metatarsus, a pair of tibiae, a right femur, and an 

 ischium. The metatarsus (without the distale) is 5-2in. in 

 length and 2-4in. in girth. The tibiae (without the tibiale) 

 are 9-3in. in length and 2-5in. in girth. The femur is 5-2in. 

 in length and 3-lin. in girth. The ischium is 3in. in length, 

 and has never anchylosed to the other bones of the pelvis. 



I refer the skull figured in Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. lii., to 

 this species, because it so closely resembles the skull which 

 we know to belong to D. torosus, and differs much from that of 

 D. iwtens. The tibia and femur originally described by Pro- 

 fessor Owen as those of D. striUhioides (Ext. Birds of N.Z., 

 p. 88, t. 7 and f. Colenso), and afterwards dropped altogether, 

 undoubtedly belong here ; while the tibia and femur ascribed 

 to D. gracilis belong really to D. struthioides. 



Dinornis torosus. 



D. gracilis, Haast, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. i., p. 81, Nos. 7 

 and 9. Pal. ingens, Hochstetter, New Zealand, p. 187; 

 Jaeger, Eeise der " Novara," Palae., p. 307, taf. xxv., 

 xxvi. 



Figures. — Cranium, Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. Ixxxii. (as 

 ingens), Eeise der "Novara," Palse., pl. xxv., xxvi.; sternum, 

 Ext. Birds of N.Z., pl. xcviii. (as maxwuts). Eestoration, 

 Ext. Birds of N.Z., pl. cxii., fig. 1, and pl. cxiii., fig. 1 (as 

 gracilis), skull incorrect. 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xix., p. 193, and vol. xxii., p. 84. 



