BINOKXTTITTD.TE. 2^1 



b. Vertebrce. 



The undermentioned verfehrce are assigned to this species as hcinfj 

 considerably smaller than those of A. curta, from ivhich they also 

 differ in being relatively longer and more slender. They were 

 obtained from the North. Island. 



21752 b. The associated seventh and eighth cervical vertebrte, in a 

 somewhat imperfect condition. The contrast between the 

 contour of these specimens and that of the corresponding 

 vertebrte of A. parva is very marked. 



Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1838. 



32128. Five associated cervical vertebra?, comprising the fourteenth 

 to the eighteenth, in a slightlj^ imperfect condition. 



Walter Mantell Collection. Purchased, about 1855. 



32131. A second dorsal vertebra, apparently associated with the 

 preceding specimens. This specimen is considerably 

 smaller than the corresponding dorsal of A. curta. 



Wcdter Mantell Collection. 



Anomalopteryx curta (Owen'). 



Syn. Dinornis curtus, Owen -. 

 Cela curta, Reichenbach ^. 



An imperfectly known species, and the type of Cela. Founded 

 upon limb-bones, which are smaller than those of A. parva, the 

 tarso-metatarsus being relatively stouter than in the t^pe of the 

 latter. The tibio-tarsus may be regarded as the actual type. 



The length of the type tibio-tarsus is (»,284 (11*2 inches), and its 

 distal width U,049 (1-9 inch). The tarso-metatarsus has a lengtli 

 of 0,135 (5-3 inches), and a width at the middle of the shaft of 

 0,02G(l-0-liuch). 



In the stoutness of the tarso-metatarsus this species approximates 

 to Emeus. The femur is probably included among the specimens 

 entered under the heading of A. (?) geranoides. 



Uah. Typically the North Island, but also represented in the 

 South Island (sec No. 46504). 



' Traus. Zool. Soc. vol. iii. p. 325 {\M&).— Dinornis. 2 ^^_ ^-f 



■* Nat. Syst.Vogel, p. xxx (1852). 



