DR0M0KMrHID.?2. 



355 



Family DR0M0RNITH1D.E. 



ontVT'^"'\^"""" ^'""P P''^"^^>' '^^''"^ '^ the following 

 one with some affin.ty to the preceding. I„ the tibio-tarsus the 



0.1^1-7 r/;' "PP^°^^'^''t^^ ^-y closely to that of the Gast- 



ITofT'TV .""' '"''°'°^ ^^™"^^ ^^ ^"-"^''^ - tJ^e middle 

 .' t\ ' ''"'^ "PP"'''"' *° *^^"^ h^d "^^ bony bridge. In the 

 emur, which has no pneumatic foramen, the head is higher than the 

 troehan er the shaft is compressed from back to front, and the 

 popliteal depression is extremely deep. The pelvis appears to 

 approximate to that of the Casuariidre, but thesupra-acetabul r 

 .schiatic tuberosity of the ilium is much more approbated tot 

 superior border of the latter. 



Genus DROMORNIS, Owen 



The only described genus. 



ren 



Dromornis australis, Ow( 



The type species; of the approximate dimensions of Emeus 

 crassus. 



Bah. Eastern Australia. 



43960. Casts of the right femur. The original, which is the type 

 IS preserved in the Museum at Sydney, and was obtained 

 m 1869 from a superficial deposit at Peak Downs, Queens- 

 land. The cast is figured by Owen in the ' Trans. Zool 

 Soc' vol. viii. pis. Ixii., Ixiii., and also in his ' Extinct Birds 

 of Xew Zealand,' pi. c. It is noticed by Etheridge in the 

 ' Eec. Geol. Surv. N. S. W. vol. i. pp. 126, 127 (1889). 



Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 



44011. The imi)erfect distal portion of the right tibio-tarsus • from 

 {lu<j.) a cavern in the Mount Gambier Range, South Australia 

 Described and figured by Owen in his 'Extinct Birds of Xew 

 Zealand,' Appendix, p. 5, pi. cxviii., the figures being re- 

 versed. The water-worn condition of the specimen renders 



' Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1872, p. G82. 2 Loc.cit 



