186 PROFESSOR OWEN ON THE GENUS DROMORNIS. 
PLATE XXXII. 
Outer or under view of sternum of Dinornis maximus. 
Inner or upper view of ditto. 
Costal border of the right side of ditto. 
Costal border of the left side of ditto. 
. Anterior border of the sternum of ditto. 
(All the figures are of the natural size.) 
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APPENDIX. 
Additional Evidence of the Genus Dromornis in Australia. 
By Prof. Owen, C.B., F.R.S., F.Z.S., &e. 
[Puate XXXIII.] 
Received January 25th, 1877. Read March 6th, 1877. 
A Frew weeks ago I was favoured with a letter from an esteemed correspondent in 
Australia, the Rev. W. B. Clarke, F.G.S., dated “ Branthwaite, North Shore, New South 
Wales, 11th October, 1876,” inclosing a photograph of a portion of the pelvis of a huge 
bird, which bird had been found at a depth of from 150 feet to 200 feet in what is 
called the ‘ Canadian lead,’ “ the bed-rock of which, at this place, is a paleozoic lime- 
stone, much waterworn and cavernous.” ‘The locality is “in the county of Phillip, not 
far from Mudgee, on the road to Gulgong.” 
Mr. Clarke promises to send a cast of this specimen; but I will not delay to notice 
the discovery, because the photograph and the given dimensions show the specimen to 
have formed part of a bird’s pelvis as large as that of the Dinornis elephantopus; and 
I have received, from another and distant locality, a fossil bone which enables a more 
instructive and decisive comparison to be instituted between it and the corresponding 
part of the skeleton of the Dinornis most nearly corresponding with it in size. 
This bone was sent me from the province of South Australia, and was found in the 
‘Mount Gambier range.” 
It is the lower portion, with the articular end a little mutilated, of a left tibia of a 
flightless bird (Plate XX XIII.), and corresponding in size with the same part in Dinornis 
elephantopus', and rather larger than that of Gastornis parisiensis °. 
As the modifications of the distal end of the tibia in birds are more salient and 
characteristic than those of the femur, the present specimen is valuable as a test of the 
conclusions drawn from the fossil femur of the large bird from Australian drift de- 
? Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. iv. pl. 43, fig. 4. 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Aug. 1856, pl. iii. p. 204. 


