SI-HENISCID.E. 195 



large, placed high up, and not unt'requently unites with a lower 

 I)i-ocess to enclose a large oblong foramen. The scapula is very- 

 largo and wide. The wing-bones arc compressed, and the proximal 

 ones very small ; the humerus having a very large subtrochanteric 

 fossa and aborted condyles. 



Family SPIIENISCID.E. 



Includes all the members of the suborder. 



Genus EUDYPTES, Vieillot '. 



The species arc generally of smaller size than those of Aiiteno- 

 diftes (Avhich is unknown in IN^ew Zealand), and the beak is much 

 deeper. It appears impossible to distinguish genericaUy many of 

 the bones of the two genera, but in the tarso-metatarsus of the 

 present genus the outer interosseous foramen is longer and nar- 

 rower than the inner one, and the groove prolonged from it on to 

 the anterior face of the bone is deeper than in Aptenochjtts. 



CulllipttiS antipoUum (Hombr. & Jacq. ^). 

 Syu. Catarrhactes antipodes, Ilombr. & Jacq.^ 



A large species. The undermentioned specimens of the tibio- 

 tarsns are characterized by the great width of the anterior inter- 

 condylar gorge, and are thus readily distinguished from the corre- 

 sponding bone of E. adeJiir', in which this gorge is narrow. The 



Fig. 44. 



Eudi/pics aiitipodioii.— The right tarso-tnetatarsus ; from the superficial 

 deposits of New Zealand, j- 



' Analyse, pp. 67 & 70 (1816). 



- Aun. Sci. Nat. vol. xvi. p. 520 {lS-i\).—Cafarrh<ic(es. ' Loc. cii. 



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