6GG RATIT.T,. 



A. 192 d. A similar right quadrate; from the South Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



32209. A similar right quadrate ; from the Soutli Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 

 32195. A slightly larger right quadrate ; from the South Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



32202*. A right quadrate ; from the South Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



**Anoinalopteryx dromseoides (Owen '). 

 Syn. Dinornis drumeeoides, Owen 2. 

 Falaptery.v dromcpoides, Owen ^. 



An imperfectly known species, founded upon the femur, with 

 which the tibio-tarsus referred by Owen to A. didiformis agrees in 

 relative size. The tarso-metatarsus probably referable to this species 

 is somewhat longer than the type of A. didiformis, and other speci- 

 mens are relatively more slender than the latter. 



This species, with which the preceding may be identical, appears 

 to have had the same proportionate dimensions in the limb-bones as 

 obtains in the smaller A. parva • but in the absence of any evidence 

 as to the relative size of the skull and hallux, it is impossible to say 

 whether it was most nearly allied to that species or to A. didina or 

 A. didiformis. The characters of the femur and tarso-metatarsus 

 would scarcely distinguish A. didiformis or A. parva from this 

 species. 



Some of the smaller examples of the tarso-metatarsus mentioned 

 under the head of A. casnarina not improbably belong to this 

 species ; while of the specifically undetermined specimens of the 

 tibio-tarsus catalogued below (pp. 267, 268) — more especially the 

 cast of the tibio-tarsus referred by Owen to A. didiformis — some 

 probably belong to the present species. 



The length of the femur is 0,236 (9-3 inches), that of the tarso- 

 metatarsus provisionally referred to this species being 0,188 (7'4 

 inches), and that of the tibio-tarsus (p. 268) 0,411 (16-2 inches). 



The tibio-tarsus figured by Owen in the ' Trans. Zool. Soc' vol. iii. 

 pi. xlvii. fig. 1 as PaJapteryx dromo'oides is too large for this species, 

 and agrees with the corresponding bones referred to Dinornis 

 strutMoides. 



Hah. Typically the North Island, but also found in the South 

 Island. 



1 Trans. Zool. Soo. vol. iii. p. 253 {\.M-^).~Binonns. 



2 Loc. rif. '■' Ibid. p. .^27 (1847). 



