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In the proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, for 
1884 (Vol. L, p. 23), Mr. De Vis describes a fragment of. the 
proximal end of a femur of a struthious bird that was discovered, 
with other bones, at King’s Creek, in the Darling Downs district. 
In the author’s opinion the characters of this fragment justify 
its reference to the genus Dinornis, and he accordingly assigned 
to its possessor the name Dinornis queenslandie. This conclusion 
has, however, been contested by so competent an authority as 
Professor Hutton, and no doubt requires the confirmatory 
evidence of more complete material. 
In 1889 remains of a large struthious bird were found at an 
old spring, in sinking a well, at a depth of 20 feet from the sur- 
face at Thorbindah, near Cainwarra Station, on the Paroo River, 
Queensland, in association with fragments of bones of kangaroos, 
Diprotodon, and Dromeus, and forwarded to the Government 
Geologist by Mr. A. 8S. Cotter. These were described by Mr. 
Etheridge in the paper to which we have expressed our indebted- 
ness as portions of “the right tibia and left fibula of a large 
struthious bird, and the right tibia of an emu;” both of the 
portions of the larger bones were assigned by the author to 
Dromornis. 
As to the fragment of tibia, we can have no doubt that it belongs 
to the same bird as the Mount Gambier and Callabonna fossils ; 
but to this matter we must recur. The fragment, however, 
believed by Mr. Etheridge to be a part of the fibula, is certainly 
not any part of that bone in the Callabonna bird, and, indeed, 
we cannot make it correspond to any part of Genyornis which we 
possess, nor, moreover, does it correspond to any part of any 
fossil bone with which we are able to compare it, whether of bird 
or mammal. 
As we are dealing particularly with the larger forms of 
struthious birds, we do no more than mention, in this place, that 
fossil fragments of bones, which have been referred to the exist- 
ing genus Dromeus, have been recorded from the Post-Tertiary 
deposits of the Wellington Caves and other localities. One such 
fragment, from the Darling Downs, of slightly larger dimensions 
than the living species Dromeus nore-hollandice, constitutes the 
type of Dromeus patricius,* which name was accepted by Mr. 
Etheridge for the fragment found at the Paroo River with the 
larger bones.+ So also a fossil representative of Casuarius 
(stated to be allied to C. prcticollis, Lydekker, Brit. Mus. Cat. 
Fossil Birds), in the form of a distal portion of the tibio-tarsus, 
was also obtained in the cave deposits of Wellington Valley. 
*<¢A Glimpse of the Post-Tertiary Avi-fauna of Queensland,” Proc, 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1888, Vol. III., 2nd ser., p. 1277. 
+ Records Geol. Surv. of N.S.W., doc cit., p. 133. 
