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proportion than the ostrich, and absolutely without 

 any trace of wings. The general outline of one of 

 the largest of these extraordinary animals, of which 

 a figure is given in the annexed wood-cut (fig. 144), 

 will afford some notion of the vast proportions at- 

 tained ; the figure of a man being drawn to the 



Fig. 144 



DlNORNIS. 



same scale as the bird, to assist the eye in judg- 

 ing of the dimensions. The various species hitherto 

 determined have all been referred to a single genus, 

 under the name Dinornis.* The legs of the Dinornis 

 were powerful, and were no doubt well adapted for 

 rapid locomotion; and in the Apteryx similar power- 



f Acii/og (deinos), enormously large ; opvig (orm's), a bird. 



