PROFESSOR OWEN ON THE GENTJS DINOENIS. 



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Femur of Dinornis gravis. Nat. size. 



PLATE LX. 



Fig. 1. Front view. Fig. 2. Lower articular surface. 



Fig. 1. Back view. 



PLATE LXI. 



Fi^ 



In both Plates. 



2. Upper articular surface. 



a. The head. 



b. The depression for ligament (part of). 



c. The trochanterian articular surface. 



d. The neck. 



e. Non-articular surface. 



f. Epitrochanterian ridge. 



g. Pretrochanterian surface. 

 h. Pretrochanterian ridge. 



i. Angle between trochanterian surfaces. 



j. Ectotrochanterian surface. 



k. Ectotrochanterian ridge. 



I. Ectotrochanterian tuberosity. 



m. Post-trochanterian surface. 



n. Upper gluteal surface. 



Lower gluteal surface. 



q. Linea obliqua longitudinalis superior 



interna; g'', inferior, 

 j". Ectocondylar branch. 

 r. MeduUarterial orifice. 

 /. Entocondylar branch. 

 s. Small trochanterian surface. 

 t. Rotular channel. 

 t. Anterior intercondylar ridge. 

 111. Entocondylar surface. 

 V. Intercondylar fossa. 

 w. Posterior intercondylar ridge. 

 X. Ectocondylar surface for tibia. 

 y. Fibular surface. 

 z. Popliteal space. 



p. Linea obliqua longitudinalis superior 

 externa ; j)\ inferior ditto. 



[The specimens of Dinornis gravis, above described and figured, were discovered in 

 the bed of the Kakamai river, South Island, by Wm. Fenwick, Esq. I am indebted to 

 the kindness of the Baroness Burdett Coutts for the loan of the specimens.] 



Postscript. — Since writing the above I have received from my zealous and accom- 

 plished correspondent in New Zealand, Julius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., Government 

 Geologist of the Province of Canterbuiy, the following announcement of the discovery 

 of remains of a bird of prey which may truly be termed gigantic. 



These remains were discovered and recognized by Dr. Haast's assistant, Mr. F. Fuller, 

 while directing some excavations in a marsh on the Glenmark estate. They consist of 

 a left femur, two claw-phalanges, a vertebral rib, with its ankylosed epipleural appen- 

 dage, and a muilated right humerus, the latter being subsequently discovered in a 

 watercourse, about two miles fi'om Glenmark. Dr. Haast, who has kindly sent me 



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