66 Transactions. 



deep, about equal in size. Pallial sinus well marked, rounded. 

 Eesillifer flat and triangular, similar in both valves. Eight 

 valve with two cardinal teeth, the central one very strong and 

 much higher than the anterior. Anterior lateral tooth obsolete ; 

 posterior lateral strong. Left valve with two cardinal teeth ; 

 the posterior lateral obsolete, the anterior well developed. 



Length, 55mm. ; height, 35mm.; thickness, 21mm. ; depth 

 of pallial sinus, 7 mm. 



Localities. — Wharekuri, Waitaki Valley; Mount Harris; 

 Mount Horrible ; Pareora : Awamoa. 



Abt. XV. — On a Skeleton of Emeus crassus from the North 



Island. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 

 [Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury , 7th June, 1905.] 



On the 31st January last the Museum received from Mr. 

 C K. Meredith-Kaye an imperfect skeleton of a moa, which 

 turned out to be Emeus crassus. It was found in sand by Mr. 

 Meredith-Kaye's son, on his run, about eighteen miles south 

 of Castle Point, on the east coast of Wellington Province. 



With the exception of the legs and feet, the bones were 

 brittle and much broken ; nevertheless it is quite possible to 

 make out the characteristics of the bird. The remains are — 

 skull and premaxilla, with the right maxillo-palatine and both 

 quadrates ; the entoglossal bones ; nineteen vertebrae, from 10 

 to 28 ; a very imperfect pelvis, with nine caudal vertebrae ; a 

 fragmentary sternum, and the remains of fourteen thoracic 

 ribs, with five uncinates ; two cervical and seven sternal ribs ; 

 a set of leg and toe bones complete, except one hallux missing. 

 There were also about thirty-five slender oval and fifty thick 

 round tracheal rings. Many others were destroyed, as they 

 hardly bore handling. It was a full-grown bird, but the 

 twenty-eighth vertebra was not anchylosed to the pelvis. 



With the skeleton were found a few rounded pebbles of 

 sandstone, and three fragments of egg-shell ; the latter show- 

 ing that the bird was a female, for the place in which the 

 skeleton was found precludes us from supposing that it might 

 have been a male sitting on an egg. 



Of the skull : The ealvarium is well preserved, the pre- 

 maxilla is damaged but resembles that of Emeus, but the 

 mandible is altogether absent. The right maxillo-palatine is 

 like that of Emeus, there being no atrium to the palatine 

 The skull resembles that of Emeus crassus, but the temporal 

 ridges advance more over the cranial roof, the occipital 



