228 EATIT^. 



32143. The loft femur ; from Waingongoro, North Island. This 

 specimen, of which the extremities are imperfect, agrees 

 in all respects with the preceding one. 



Walter Mantell Oollection. PurcJiased, about 1855. 



Vertebrce. 

 21757. A posterior cervical vertebra (about the 19th), in an im- 

 perfect condition ; from the menacccnitc bed of Te Ran- 

 gatapu. The haemal sinue is shown in a broken condition. 



Mantell Collection. 



21805. An imperfect posterior cervical (about the 21st), probably 

 associated with the preceding. Mantell Collection. 



Specimens from the South Island, provisionalli/ referred 

 to this species. 

 38621. The right and left tibio-tarsus, in a weathered and imperfect 

 condition ; from the northern part of the South Island. 

 Both extremities are imperfect, and the distal extensor 

 bridge is wanting. These specimens are some two inches 

 sliorter than the type of D. (jiganteus, and in this respect 

 agree with the corresponding bones, Nos. 32041-42, 

 referred to the male of D. maximus, but, so far as their 

 imperfect condition admits of determination, they appear 

 to have a narrower distal extremity than the latter. They 

 are provisionally regarded as indicating a small race of 

 D. novce-zealandice. 



Presented by Sir D. Cooper, Bart., 1864. 



A. 96. An associated left tibio-tarsus and tarso-metatarsus ; from a 

 place about 70 miles from Christchurch, Canterbury. The 

 proportionate length of the tibio-tarsus to the preceding 

 specimen is almost exactly the same as that borne by the 

 corresponding bone of the male of the northern form to 

 that of the female. The tibio-tarsus is somewhat shorter 

 than the corresponding bone of the following specimen, 

 but the width of its distal extremity, which is 0,091 

 (3'6 inches), is very much less. 



Presented by H. Wharton, Esq., 1886. 



A. 11. The associated femur, tibio-tarsus, and tarso-metatarsus of 

 both legs of a bird provisionally referred to this species ; 

 from Glenmark Swamp, Canterbury, South Island. Both 

 specimens of the femur, and also those of the tibio-tarsus, 

 are imperfect. The length of the tibio-tarsus is the same 



