544 Transactions. — Geology. 



Auckland, the lengths of which were 451mm. and 800mm, 

 respectively. A very large tibia, found at Te Aute, was 

 measured by the Kev. W. Colenso, and said to have a length 

 of 954mm., and a distal width of 96mm. Two metatarsi in 

 the Canterbury Museum, one from Te Aute the other from 

 Wanganui, have the following measurements : Length, 

 514mm. ; prox. width, 104mm. ; mid. width, 51mm. ; distal 

 width, 140mm. These bones are more slender than those of 

 D. maximus, and the extremities of the metatarsus and tibia 

 are not so expanded. 



A pre-maxilla, belonging to this species or the next, from 

 near Wanganui, is more pointed and more curved down at 

 the apex than the same bone in D. maximus or D. robiistus. 

 It resembles the pre-maxilla of D. torosns, but is much larger. 

 The following are its dimensions : Length, 113mm.; lengtli of 

 body, 60mm. ; width of body, 57mm. 



I have already, in my papers on the moas of Kapua and 

 Enfield,* explained why I cannot agree with Mr. Lydekker 

 that this species is the female of the next. 



Dinornis ingens. 



Dinornis ingens, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, iii., p. 247 (1844). 

 Dinornis novce-zealandice, $ Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Birds in 

 B.M., p. 227. Dinornis firmus and ingens, Hutton, Trans. 

 N.Z. Inst., xxiv., pp. 114 and 116. 



Figures. — Metatarsus, Trans. Z.S., iii., pi. 48 (Ext. Birds, 

 pi. 40), fig. 1 ; tibia, I.e. (and Exi. Birds), pis. 25 and 26, 

 figs. 1, 2; femur, I.e. (and Ext. Birds), pi. 21, figs. 1, 2; 

 cranium,! I.e., iv., pis. 2, 3, and 24 (Ext. Birds, 52 and 53), 

 figs. 1, 3. 



The type is a tibia 736mm. in length, and with a distal 

 width of 92mm. The Eev. W. Colenso has in his possession 

 the bones of an individual leg the lengths of which are : Meta- 

 tarsus, 412mm.; tibia, 736mm.; femur, 368mm. The com- 

 monest lengths are : Metatarsus, 355mm., and tibia, 660ann. 

 The largest metatarsus in the Canterbury Museum has the 

 following dimensions : Length, 419mm. ; prox. width, 96unn. ; 

 mid. width, 48mm. ; distal width, 132mm. The smallest meta- 

 tarsus is : Length, 343mm. ; prox. width, 77mm. ; mid. width, 

 38mm. ; distal width, 38mm. A tibia has the following di- 

 mensions : Length, 645mm.; prox. width, 142mm.; mid. 

 width, 45mm.; distal width, 86mm. The largest femur is : 

 Length, 366mm. ; prox. width, 124mm. ; mid. width, 55mm. ; 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxviii., pp. 627 and 645. 



■f The skull, figured as that of D. ingens, in Trans. Zool. Soc, vii., 

 pi. 15, and Extinct Birds, pi. 82, is very incorrect, and should be dis- 

 regarded. 



