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it impossible to be certain that there was no extensor 

 bar, although evidence in favour of this absence is aiForded 

 by the nearly similar specimen from New South Wales 

 described and figured by Etheridge, op. cit. p. 129, pi. xi. 

 fig. 1, pi. xii. fig. 1, pi. xiii. fig. 1. 



Presented hy the Tntstees of the Adelaide Museum., 1872. 



Dromornis, sp. a. 



The undermentioned specimens, as having been obtained from a 

 depth of 200 feet in an auriferous deposit of presumed Pliocene age, 

 are regarded by Etheridge ^ as probably specifically distinct from the 

 Pleistocene D. auslralls, to which they were provisionally referred 

 by Owen. 



Hah. Eastern Australia. 



49160. The imperfect pelvis and sacrum ; from the Canadian 

 Gold Lead, near Mudyee, County Phillip. Noticed by 

 Owen in his ' Extinct Birds of New Zealand,' Appendix, 

 p. 6. The anterior portion of the ilium and nearly the 

 whole of the postacetabular region are wanting. The 

 anterior margin of the acetabulum is more upright than 

 in the Casuariidce ; the acetabular portion of the pubis is 

 relatively larger ; and the supra-acetabular region of the 

 ilium lower and more expanded. Eeference is made to 

 this specimen by Etheridge, loc. cit. 



Presented hy the Rev. W. B. Clarke, 1877. 



49160 a. The imperfect entocondylc of the right femur ; associated 



with the preceding specimen. This specimen is larger 



than the corresponding portion of the femur of D. austrcdis ; 



the outer half of the deep popliteal depression is well shown. 



Presented hy the Rev. W. B. Clarke, 1877. 



1 Eec. Geo). Surv. N. S. W. vol. i. p. 120 1 1889). 



