HuTTON.— 0« Meionoinis. 557 



pjgmmis of this paper— as the type, but this is against the 

 rule tollowed m other cases, and cannot, I think, be allowed 

 ile also places the cranium only in his A. geranoides, statin^r 

 that the pre-maxilla and mandible belong to M. casuarinus 

 i Owen's figures do not bear this out, for both pre-maxilla 

 and mandible are represented as belonging to Anomalornis 

 and are not at all like the same bones in M. casuarinus ' 

 and as no other bones of 71/. casuariuus have been found in 

 the North Island, I hesitate to accept Mr. Lydekker's 

 determmation. The cranium and the mandible resemble 

 a good deal those which I attribute to A. for Us ; but the 

 JNorth Island cranium is flatter, and has larger temporal 

 lossaB. I therefore think that Owen was right in placing 

 these bones together, but that in his restoration he has made 

 the mandible too long. Probably this skull belongs to D dro- 

 mcEoides or to A. gracilis, but we must await some lucky 

 discovery before this can be proved. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES XLVIL and XLVIIL 

 Plate XL VII. 

 Fig. A. Metatarsus of Anomalornis gracilis, from a cave at Waipu. 

 Fig. B Cranium and mandible of Cela carta, from the swamp at Te Aute 

 llie mandible is distorted by pressure when wet ; the apex is really as 

 pointed as m M. didinus. "^ 



Plate XLVIII. 

 Fig. C. Skull of Euryapteryx exilis, from the sandhills near Wanganui. 

 Fig. D. Pelvis of Pachyornis pijgmmis, from the swamp at Te Ante. 



Aet. lA.—On the Leg-hones of Meionornis from Glenmark. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.E.S., Curator of the Canter- 

 bury Museum. 



[Eead before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th May, 1896.] 



No deposit of moa-bones has as yet been found when drain- 

 ing the swamps on the Canterbury Plains. They only occur 

 among the low hills surrounding the plains, and of these by 

 far the most important was that at Glenmark. The earlier 

 finds here were in 1866 and 1867, and some account of the 

 bones is given by Sir Julius von Haast in the first volume of 

 the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute." But a 

 still larger find was made in 1872, of which there is no record. 



