142 CARTN-ATJ!;. 



Genus GALIjUS, Brisson '. 

 Thu tarso-metatarsns is comparatively long, considerably flattened 

 from back to front, with the inner ridge on the posterior surface 

 moderately developed ; there is a long spur in the male. 



Gallus, sp. a. 



The following specimen agrees in size with the coi'responding bone 

 of G. sonnerati. 



Hah. New Zealand. 



32114. The left tarso-metatarsus ; from the superficial deposits of 

 Waingongoro, North Island, New Zealand. This specimen 

 belonged to a female, and has a length of 0,081. 



Walter Mantell Collection. Purchased, about 1855, 



Gallus, sp. h. 



Most of the undermentioned specimens indicate a species of 

 somewhat smaller size than average-sized races of O. dom^stica. 

 They probably belong to the same species as the one recorded by 

 Meyer from the caverns of the Lahn Valley '. 



Hab. Europe. 



30517. Fifteen imperfect bones ; from the cavern-deposits of the 

 Lahn Valley, Central Germany. These comprise three 

 imperfect coracoids ; two specimens of the imperfect distal 

 extremity of the left humerus ; a left ulna, wanting the 

 distal extremity ; the proximal extremities of the right and 

 left ulnas ; the distal portions of the right and left ulnae ; 

 three fragments of the radius ; the imperfect proximal half 

 of the left metacarpus ; and the distal extremity of the 

 left tarso-metatarsus. The specimens indicate individuals 

 of different dimensions ; the metacarpus being relatively 

 larger than the humeri. 



Hastiiif/s Collection. Purchased, 1855. 



Gallus bravardi, Gervais ■*. 

 Known by part of a tarso-metatarsus, of which it ib said " la taille etait inter- 

 m^diaire a celle du paon et du coq ordinaire." 

 Hah. Europe (France). 

 From the Upper Pliocene of Ardes, near Issoire (Puy-de-D6rae). 



1 Ornithologie, vol. i. p. 166 (1760). 



'■' See Milne-Edwards, ' Oiseaus Fossiles de la France,' vol. ii. p. 254. 



3 Mem. Ac. Montpellier, vol. i. p. 220 (1850). 



