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Breadth of skull at temporal fossae, 2-5in. to 2-2in. ; at 

 post-frontal processes, 4-lin. to 3*9iu. Length of lower jaw, 

 6-2m. Total length of skull, 7m. Sternum : Length of body, 

 4-5in. ; breadth, 7m. ; length of lateral processes 5-5in., of 

 median process 3"5in., but with a notch O'oin. deep; breadth 

 at anterior border, 7"5in. ; across ends of lateral processes, 

 12in. Length of scapulo-coracoid, Gin. to Sin. Length of 

 ilium, 17in. ; breadth of sacrum, 5-5in. ; length of isclrium, 

 Sin. ; depth of pelvis, 6 -Sin. 



Distrihution. — Tolerably abundant in the northern part of 

 the South Island as far as Glenmark, but very rare in Otago. 

 No. 1 is a nearly perfect skeleton, in the possession of Mr. K. 

 I. Kingsley, which was found in a cave in the Takaka district, 

 near Nelson. No. 2 is from Glenmark, and is in the Canter- 

 bury Museum. 



This species is intermediate between D. gracilis and D. 

 struthioides, and is more robust than the former. Dr. Hoch- 

 stetter's skeleton, now in the Vienna Museum, undoubtedly 

 belongs here, but the tibia; belong to D. rohusUis. This 

 skeleton was collected by diggers and given to the Nelson 

 Museum before Dr. Hochstetter's arrival. The femora were 

 missing. The scapulo-coracoids probably belong to A. didi- 

 forviis. Dr. Hochstetter says that he himself collected the 

 skull described by Dr. Jaeger, in the same cave, and it pro- 

 bably belonged to the skeleton. The skull belonging to Mr. 

 Kingsley's specimen corresponds so closely in shape and size 

 with it that, no doubt, both belong to one species. Sir E. 

 Owen gives no locality for the skull figured in Ext. Birds of 

 N.Z., pi. Ixxxii., but, as he says that he has never received so 



