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metatarsus of which corresponds closely with Owen's figure 

 and description. The following are their dimensions : — 



I have no doubt that these three bones belonged to the 

 same individual. There is in the Museum collection a pair 

 of femora from Akitio, east coast of Wellington, which have 

 the following dimensions : Length, 228mm. ; prox. width, 

 76mm. ; mid. width, 33mm. 



There is in the Auckland Museum a cranium, and another 

 in the Canterbury Museum, from the same cave near Wha- 

 ngarei, and it is probable that one or other of them belongs to 

 the leg-bones in the Canterbury Museum. They closely 

 resemble the skull oi A. parvus, but are flatter, and the temporal 

 ridges do not extend so far over the roof of the cranium. The 

 best-preserved one has the optic foramina closer together than 

 in A. parvus, and there is no horizontal shelf of bone below 

 them, and no pre-sphenoidal fossa. Also the three foramina 

 of the lacerate fossa are all united, and communicate with the 

 optic foramen. The following are the only dimensions which 

 can be taken : Width at squamosals, 65mm. ; width at tem- 

 poral fossae, 42mm. ; distance between temporal ridges, 

 34mm. ; height of cranium, 41mm. ; distance between optic 

 foramina, 7mm. The other cranium is of about the same 

 size, but more imperfect. So far as can be seen, it differs 

 from it only in the absence of a mid-temporal ridge, which is 

 probably due to age or sex. 



The pelvis described by Owen (as p. 5, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc, iii., p. 256) probably belongs here, as also does 

 another in Mr. A. Hamilton's collection from Te Aute, 

 which measures 318mm. in length, with a width of 146mm. 

 at the antitrochanters. These differ from the pelvis of 

 A. parvus in having the lower surfaces of the centra of the 

 sacral vertebrae longitudinally ridged, as in Meionornis . 

 Another pelvis, from the Hawke's Bay district, presented 

 by Mr. H. Hill, F.G.S., has the following dimensions : 

 Length of the ilium, about 300mm. ; of pre-acetabular por- 

 tion, 152mm. ; height of pre-acetabular portion of ilium,. 

 76mm. ; width at the antitrochanters, 140mm. This pelvis 

 differs from the typical pelvis in Anomalornis parvtis in 

 having the lower margin of the posterior portion of the 

 ilium flattened out, as in Eitryapteryx. But that it is an 



