424 RATIT^. 



Dinornis novce-zealandia', Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 8. 

 Dlnorms gigantetis, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. pi. xxvii. fig. 1 



(1844). 

 Dinornis ingens, Owen, Trans. Zool. See. iii. p. 247 (1844). 



The Moa. 



Ilah. North Island, New Zealand ; but apparently repre- 

 sented by a rather smaller race in the northern part of the 

 South Island {Lydekker, t. c). 



2161. Skeleton : mounted. 



2162. Cranium. No Jiistonj. 



2163. Two cervical vertebrae. No Idstory. 



2164. Two dorsal vertebrae. No liistory. 



2165. Five dorsal vertebrae. From Poverty Bay, North Island, 



New Zealand. [Not recorded in ' Catalogue of Fossil 

 Mammalia and Aves.'] 



Presented hy iJean Buckland, F.R.S. 



2166. Pelvis and sacrum. From Poverty Bay. [Numbered 



1558 A of Fossil ('atalogue, but not recorded therein. f] 

 Presented by Dean Buckland, F.R.S. 



2167. Right femur. From Poverty Bay. F. C. 15(35 A. 



[No. 185SI2 of Lydekker's Cat. Fossil Birds Brit. Mus.] 

 Presented hy Dean Buckland, F.R.S. 



3168. Eight femur. From Opito, near Mercury Bay, East 

 Coast of North Island. Found a few feet below the 

 surface, close to an ancient cooking-place, wiih smaller 

 bones of birds and fishes. 



* Cf. Lydekker, Cat. Fossil Birds Brit. Mus. p. 224 (1891). 



t It is to be noted that more than one of the original types of Binorjuthidcc, 

 described in the old ' Catalogue of Fossil Mainnialia and Aves,' are no longer 

 to be found in the Museum of the College, though casts of them exist in the 

 British Museum, to which they were presented by the Council of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. {Cf. Ly dekker, t. c. pp. 225, 227.] Tossibly the 

 substitution of " right " and " left'' in the figures may have occasioned some 

 confusion in the identiticatiou of some of the specimens. 



