2G8 EATIT^. 



32056*. A somewhat longer left tibio-tarsus ; from the North 

 Island. The proportions are precisely the same as in the 

 preceding specimen. 



Walter Afantell Collection. Purchased about 1855. 



32056. A right tibio-tarsus intermediate in size between the two 

 preceding specimens ; from the menaccenite bed * of Te 

 llangatapu, near Waingongoro, North Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



21793. A right tibio-tarsus of a rather shorter and stouter type 



than No. 32056* ; from Te Rangatapu. This specimen, 



which can scarcely be separated specifically from the 



preceding, indicates a transition towards Emeus gravipes. 



Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1838. 



32015. An imperfect left tibio-tarsus; from Waingongoro. This 



specimen, which has lost the extensor bi'idge, resembles 

 No. 32056*. Walter Mantell Collection. 



32016. A nearly similar right tibio-tarsus, with the extensor bridge 



broken away ; from Waingongoro. 



Walter Mantell Collection. 



41259. A somewhat longer right tibio-tarsus ; from the South 

 Island. This specimen accords exactly in size with the 

 corresponding bone of the type of A. didina, from which 

 it can only be distinguished by the shorter extensor 

 bridge. Purchased, 1869. 



19474. A still larger left tibio-tarsus, with the extensor bridge 

 broken away ; from the South Island. Earl Collection. 



18593. Cast of a nearly similar left tibio-tarsus. The original Avas 

 obtained from Poverty Bay, North Island, and is preserved 

 in the Musei;m of the Eoyal College of Surgeons. It is 

 described and figured by Owen in the ' Trans. Zool. Soc' 

 vol. iii. p. 246, pi. xxv. fig. 3, and pi. xxvi, fig. 3, and 

 also in the ' Extinct Eirds of New Zealand,' p. 84, pi. xxv. 

 fig. 3, and pi. xxvi. fig. 3, where it is referred to A. didi- 

 formis. Both figures are reduced in size, whereas in the 

 description of the plate they are said to be drawn of the 

 natural dimensions. The length of the specimen is 0,411 

 (16-2 inches), and its distal width 0,062 (2-4 inches). 

 According to the dimensions obtaining in the skeleton of 

 A. didiformis, this bone is far too large to have belonged 



' See pngc 226. 



