SUB-FOSSIL REMAINS FROM KING ISLAND. 
8. Five Fibula. 
(Plate 8. Figures 11 and 12.) 
These appear to differ only in size. 
9. Ribs. 
(Plate 4. Figures 16, 17, 18.) 
Only two ribs were secured, and both of these are broken, 
The larger one corresponds to the first rib that meets the sternum. 
and the smaller one to the third. Both belong to the right 
side. The tuberculum of each is broken, and the capitulum is 
decidedly longer in proportion than in the corresponding rib of 
the mainland form. 
10. Fertebral Bodies. 
The coliection includes forty-three vertebra, but, so great has 
been the action of the wind-driven sand, that not one of them is 
entire. Apart from size, they do not apparently differ from those 
of the larger species. 
11. Toe Bones. 
(Plate 4. Figures 13, 14, 15.) 
These are such solid parts of the skeleton that it might 
naturally be expected that they would be well represented, but 
only two could be found. Each of them is the proximal phalange 
of the large middle toe, and, apart from size, differs in no way 
from the same bone in the larger bird. 
In the table we give the measurements, and, on the supposition 
that the first phalange of the median toe has the same relation 
to the length of the whole toe in the island as in the mainland 
form, we have calculated the probable total length of the toe, 
taking as a guide the length of the larger of the two bones, 
which evidently belonged to a mature bird :— 
oe D. nove-hollandia. D. minor. D. peroni. 
—— I aa ree 
Total “9p of median toe i 168 151 115-118 sie 110 
Length of Ist phalange ... hue | 64 59 45 40 ae 
The measurement given of the length of the toein D. peroni 
is 110, so that in this respect D. minor is somewhat larger than 
the former. 
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3981.—B. 
