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Transactions. — Zoology. 



Dinornis firmus. 



D. ingens, var. robustus, Owen, Ext. Birds of N.Z., p, 160, 

 from Wanganui. 



Distrihution. — Eather common ; the swamp at Te Ante, 

 also at Poverty Bay, and in the Maori cooking-places at 

 Wanganui and Whangarei. No. 1 is a specimen in the 

 possession of W. Colenso, Esq., from Poverty Bay. The 

 cnemial crest of the tibia is probably abraded. 



This was a more slender species than D. rohustus, but 

 occasionally bones are found which cannot be distinguished 

 from slender South Island specimens. X fragmentary sternum 

 in the Napier Museum has the lateral processes diverging at a 

 less angle than that of rohustus, which may also indicate a 

 specific difference. 



The tibiae of this species and of D. ingens are more slender 

 than those of the other moas. 



Dinornis ingens. 



D. ingens, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. iii., p. 237 (1843) ; 



Movia ingens, Eeichenbach, Das Natiu-liche System der 



Vogel. 



Figures. — Tibia, Ext. Birds of N.Z., pi. xxv., fig. 1, and pi. 



xxvi., figs. 1 and 2 ; femur. I.e., pi. xxi., figs. 1 and 2 ; skull, 



I.e., pi. liii., figs. 1-8, juv. 



