DlXORNITniD.K. 



245 



b 



the proximal extremity imperfect ; found with the pre- 

 ceding specimen. Earl Collection. 



c. Tlie Tibio-tars^is. 



32273. The left tibio-tarsus of a male from a cave in the district 



{Fig.) Ij'ing between the river Waikate and Mt. Tongariro, in 

 the North Island. This specimen, which was obtained and 

 transmitted by Sir George (irey, is described and figured 

 by Owen in the ' Trans. Zool. Soc' vol. iv. pp. 142, 143, 

 pi. xlii. fig. 2, where it is referred to the present species ; 

 the figure being reversed. It is also figured in the 

 ' Extinct Birds of New Zealand,' pi. Iv. fig. 1, as D. gracilis ; 

 but is not the specimen described on p. 219 as the one so 

 figured, being really the one described on pp. 217-218 as 

 the one represented in fig. 1 of the plate. The length of 

 the specimen is 0,-545 (2i"5 inches — not 22 inches, as 

 given by Owen). In its comparatively short and stout 

 form this bone resembles the rather larger tibio-tarsus of 

 the skeleton. No. A. 105. 



Presented hg Sir R. Owen, K.C.B., 1857. 



32502. A similar left tibio-tarsus, in an imperfect and fractured 

 condition ; locality unknown. The width of the distal 

 extremity has been somewhat diminished by weathering. 



No historg. 



47444, 16. The imperfect right and left tibiaj of an immature bird 



apparently referable either to the present or following 



species ; from Otago, South Island. In each sj^ecimen the 



summit of the cnemial crest was free and has been lost. 



Presented hg the Trustees of the Otago Muscvm, 1876. 



d. The Femur. 

 Some of the more slender of the following specimens iiroliahh) 

 helong to D. gracilis. 

 18597. Cast of the left femur. The original was obtained from 

 Poverty Bay, in the North Island, and is preserved in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Sm-geons. It is mentioned 

 by Owen in the ' Proc. Zool. Soc' 1843, p. 8, as D. nwce- 

 zealandicp, and described by him in the ' Trans. Zool. Soc' 

 vol. iii. p. 251, pi. xxi. fig. 3, and also in his 'Extinct Birds 

 of New Zealand,' p. 89, pi. xxi. fig. 3. The summit of the 

 great trochanter is wanting. 



Presenttd hg the Council of the 

 lioyal College of Surgeons, 1844. 



