1 52 CAEINAT.'R. 



21723. Two similar vertebrae ; from "Waingongoro. 



Manfell Collection. 



21754. A nearly similar and apparently associated specimen; from 

 the same locality. Mantell Collection, 



32099. A similar vertebra ; from the North Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection, 



32073-4. Five dorsal vertebrtc ; from the North Island, 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



Aptornis defossor, Owen ^ 



Larger than the preceding species. Skull (approximate length 

 0,185) with the temporal fossae very deep, and a very strongly 

 marked prominence on the supraoccipital above the foramen magnum. 

 Length of tibio-tarsus, typically, 0,285. Coracoids anchylosed to 

 sternum. 



Hah. New Zealand (South Island). 



The following specimens, which include the types, ivere obtained from 

 superficial deposits containing remains of Dinornithidse. 



46498-50. The imperfect skull ; from a cave 14 miles from Oamaru, 

 (Fig.) South Island. The brain-case, which is in a damaged 

 condition, is separated from the beak, and the quadrates 

 are likewise detached. These specimens are some of the 

 types ; and the anterior portion of the cranium, the left 

 quadrate, and the mandible are figured by Owen in the 

 ' Trans. Zool. Soc.' vol, vii. pis. xl., xli. ; the beak being 

 represented in pi. xl. figs. 1, 2, in conjunction with the 

 hinder part of the next specimen, the mandible in pi. xl. 

 fig. 1, and pi. xli. figs. 6-8, and the quadrate in pi. xli. 

 figs. 2-4. These figures are reproduced in pis. Ixxxiii. 

 and Ixxxiv. of the ' Extinct Birds of New Zealand.' The 

 quadrate presents all the peculiar features found in Ocy- 

 dromus, and is totally unlike the corresponding bone of 

 Porphyria. Presented by Rev. R. Taylor, 1864. 



46621. The nearly entire cranium ; from Timaru, South Island. 



{Fig.) One of the types ; figured by Owen in the ' Trans. Zool. 



Soc' vol. vii. pi. xl. figs. 1-3, and in the ' Extinct Birds 



' Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. p. 3Jj4 (1871). 



