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CARINAT.-E (continued)— 



Otidid^e, gen. et sp. ind. 



Anseres. 



Anas elapsa. 



Dendrocygna validipennis. 

 Biziura exhumata. 

 Nyroca robusta. 

 Nyroca sp. 



Herodiones. 



Xenorhynchus nanus. 

 Palceojyelaryus nobilis. 

 Platalea (?) subtenuis. 



Steganopodes. 



Felicanus proavus. 

 Plotus parvus. 



RATIT.E. 



CASUARIDiE. 



Dromaius patricius. 

 Dromaius gracilipes. 



DlNORNITHIDiE. 



Dromornis australis, Owen. 

 Dinornis queenslandiaB. 



APTERYGIDiE. 



Metapteryx bifrons. 



The wholeof the twenty-eight species indicated and seven, or more 

 probably eight, out of the twenty-four genera to which they are 

 referred, are extinct. The extent of the change which the 

 Nototherian avifauna of Queensland is thus shown to have under- 

 gone is very much the same as that observed in the case of the 

 marsupials. With two or three very doubtful exceptions all these 

 have submitted to specific metamorphosis, and of twenty-six of the 

 old genera but fourteen survive. Has the change been rapid 9 



