352 EATIT^E. 



entocondyle. The femur has a deep intercondylar gorge, and a 

 shallow popliteal depression ; the summit of the great trochanter 

 rising slightly above the level of the head. In the pelvis (fig. 72) 

 the length of the preacetabular portion of the ilium does not exceed 

 that of the postacetabular part; the ischium is narrow, and placed 

 nearly parallel to the long axis of the ilium ; and the pubis is rod- 

 like and divergent from the ischium. The cervical vertebrae are of 

 moderate length. 



The females are larger than the males. 



Subfamily Drom^injE. 



The femur has no pneumatic foramen on the posterior aspect of 

 the proximal extremity, and its shaft is somewhat compressed from 

 before backwards. The tibio-tarsus has the distal extremity much 

 expanded, and the extensor groove very shallow. The tarso-meta- 

 tarsus is slender, and as long as the tibio-tarsus. The second 

 phalangeal of the third digit of the pes is depressed, and but slightly 

 constricted. 



Genus DROM.S:US, Yieillot \ 

 The only genus. 



Dromseus patriciusj De Vis ■. 



Founded upon the evidence of part of a tibio-tarsus from Queens- 

 land, which differs from that of D. yiovcp-hoUandice by the relatively 

 larger size of the distal extremity of the shaft as compared with 

 the condyles. The worn distal extremity of a similar tibio-tarsus 

 from Xew South Wales is described and figured by Etheridge in the 

 ' Eec. Geol. Surv. N.S.W.' vol. i. p. 133, pi. xi. fig. 4, pi. xii. fig. 3, 

 pi. xiii. fig. 3 (1889). 



Hah. Eastern Australia. 



The originals of the following casts luere obtained from the Pleistocene 

 Cavern-dejposits of the Wellington Valley, New South Wales, and 

 are preserved in the Museum at Sydney. All tJie specimens 

 were presented hy the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 



A. 57. Cast of the proximal extremity of the right tibia. This 

 specimen indicates a fuUy adult individual. 



^ Analyse, p. 54 (1816) — Bromkeius ; Galerie des Ois. vol. ii. p. 79 (1834) — 

 Dromaius. 



= Proc. Linn. See. N.S.W. vol. iii. p. ll'77 (1888). 



