HuTTON. — On the Moas of the North Island. 555 



Lydekker to be from the North Island. The following dimen- 

 sions are given : — 



No other part of the skeleton is known. The shafts of 

 the tibiae are very much curved, but this may be an individual 

 deformity. 



There are in the Christchurch Museum some leg-bones 

 from Te Aute, which I refer to this species. They have the 

 following dimensions : — 



x\lthough these bones are smaller than the types and the 

 metatarsal trochleas are not so expanded, still they have the 

 same relatively long tibia which distinguishes this species 

 from P. inhabilis, but they are not curved like the type. 

 Other bones, rather larger than these, were also found at Te 

 Aute, and are now in the collection of Mr. A. Hamilton. 



Pachyornis pygmaeus. 



Plate XLVIII., Fig. D. 

 Dinornis geranoidcs, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc, v., p. 395' 



(1866). Anovialoptcryx('}) gcranoides, Lydekker, Cat. 



Fossil Birds in Brit. Mus., p. 288 (1891). Cela geranoidcs,. 



Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxiv., p. 126 (1892). Eiiry- 



apteryx pygmceus, Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxiv., p. 130 



(1892). 



Figures. — Metatarsus, Trans. Zool. Soc, v., pi. 67 (E. B., 

 pi. 70), figs. 5, 6 ; femur. Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxvii., pi. 9. 



A very rare species, the type of which is a metatarsus 

 found near Nelson. There is also in the British Museum a 

 metatarsus from a cave near Oamaru ; all other known 

 specimens are from the North Island. These are more slender 

 than the type, and may perhaps belong to a distinct species. 

 A metatarsus from Wanganui, in the Canterbury Museum, 

 has the following dimensions : Length, 152mm. ; proximal 



