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21715. Tho iraperfecfc polvis aud sacrum; from Waingongoro. 



(I''i(j.) Figured by Owen iu tlio ' Traus. Zool. Soc' vol. vii. pi. xlii. 



fig8. 4, 5. Mantell Collection. 



32095. The axis vertebra ; from the North Island. This specimen 

 is in a very fresh condition. Walter Mayitdl Collection. 



21736 a. The fourth cervical vertebra ; from the North Island. The 

 resemblance to the corresponding vertebra of Aptornis is 

 very marked. Mantell Collection. 



32094 a. A middle cervical vertebra ; from the North Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



32097 a. A middle cervical vertebra ; from Waingongoro. 



Mantell Collection. 



21736 b. Two middle cervical vertebrte ; from the same locality. 



Mantell Collection. 



21736 C. A late cervical vertebra ; from the same locality. 



Mantell Collection. 



21736 d. A late cervical vertebra ; fi-om the same locality. 



2IanteU Collection. 



21736 e. Several imperfect dorsal vertebra) ; from Waingongoro. 



Mantell Collection. 



Genus GYPSORNIS, Milne-Edwards \ 



Founded on the tarso-metatarsus (wanting the distal extremity), 

 which indicates a bird rather smaller than Porphyrio melanonotus, 

 apparently allied to the Rails. This bone is elongated, with (as in 



I all the Eulicariaj) two points of insertion for the tibialis anticus, a 

 deep channel on the anterior face, which disappears inferiorly, and 

 no bridge over the extensor groove at the proximal extremity. It 

 appears to come nearest to the corresponding bone of Aramides. 



Gypsornis cuvieri, Milne-Edwards ^ 



The type and only described species. 

 Hab. Europe (France). 



' Oiseaux Fossiles de la Fnvnce, vol. ii. p. 140 (1869-71). 

 ^ Loc. cit. 



