UiXORNlTHIDJ:. 423 



Sul.order 111. JF.PYORXirilTFORMES. 



[(y. I-ydekkcr, Cat. Fossil Birds Brit. Mus. p. 211>.] 



Funiily .EPYORNITHID^. 



Geniis ^PYORNIS. 

 Isidore Geoffrey St.-Hilaire, Ann. Sci. Xiit, (3) xiv. p. 209 (1850). 



SEpnornt'd ma)iimuS. 



jEjn/ornis maximus, Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, ut sajmi ; 

 Lydekkcr, Cat. Fossil Birds Brit. Mus. p. 213 (1891). 



The ^Epyornis. 



Hall. Madagascar. 



2157. Cast of left femur. (From the original in the Paris 



Museum.) P resented Inj the Paris Museum. 



2158. Cast of left tibio-tarsus. (From the original in the 



Paris Museum.) I* resented hy the Paris Museum. 



2159. Cast of distal end of right tarso-metatarsus. (From the 



original in the Paris Museum.) 



Presented hy the Paris Museum. 



2160. Cast of distal end of left tarso-metatarsus. (From the 



orifjinal in the Paris Museum.) 



Presented by the Paris Museum. 



Suhorder IV. />/ XOPXlTflES. 



Family DlXORNITHIDiE *. 



Genus DINORNIS t. 



Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 235 (1844). 



* C/. Owen's Memoirs in the ' Transactions ' of the Zoological Society, 

 vols, iii.-xii. ; Lydekker, ('at. Fossil Birds Brit. Mus. pp. 222-356. 

 t €/. Lydekkor, ibid. p. 222 (1891). 



