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Breadth of skull at temporal fossae, l-7in. to l-6in.; at 

 post-frontal processes, 3'lin. to 2-9in. Length of scapulo- 

 eoracoid, 2in. Length of ilium, ll-5in. to llin. ; breadth 

 of sacrum, 4-25iD. to 3-oin. ; depth of pelvis, 4-25in. to 4in. 

 Length of middle toe, 4-75in. Total length of skull, 6in. 

 to 5in. ; of lower jaw, 5-7in. to 4-7in. Post-frontal process 

 narrow. 



Distrihution. — Found in both Islands, from Whangarei 

 in the north to Southland. In the North Island the bones 

 were tolerably plentiful in the Te Aute Swamp, while the 

 types came from Poverty Bay. It has also been found in the 

 sand-dunes at Lyall's Bay, and in Maori cooking-places at 

 Pataua, near Whangarei. There is a metatarsus in the Can- 

 terbury Museum from Horohoro, near Eotorua. In the South 

 Island the bones have been obtained almost entirely from 

 caves, especially in the Nelson District. A few bones were 

 found at Glenmark, and a single tibia at Hamilton. Pro- 

 bably the bird differed in habits from the other species. 

 No. 1 is the type of D. parvus, from Takaka, and No. 2 is 

 a specimen in the Nelson Museum from the same locality. 

 The North Island birds appear to have been, on an average, 

 larger than those of the South Island, and to have had a 

 slightly stouter femur, but there are no differences of specific 

 importance. D. parvus is only a small individual of D. dicli- 

 formis. 



1 have not seen the scapulo-coracoid ; but those obtained 

 by Dr. von Hochstetter from the cave at Collingwood, 

 "scarcely 2in. long" ("New Zealand," p. 186), probably 

 belong to this species, bones of which occurred in the cave. 

 Certainly they do not belong to the skeleton on which he has 

 placed them. 



Anomalopteryx antiquus. 



"Avian Eemains," H. 0. Forbes, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 

 xxiii., p. 369. 



Figures.— PI XYII. 



