II—ZOOLOGY. 
Авт. XII.—On Harpagornis, an Extinct Genus of Gigantic Raptorial Birds 
of New Zealand. 
By Јоішоѕ Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury Museum. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th June, and 2nd July, 1873.] 
Plates VII., VIII., IX. 
(AssrRACT.)* 
Іх a paper read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, in 1871,f 
I offered the first account of the discovery of a few bones belonging to a 
gigantic bird of prey, which were obtained with a considerable quantity of 
Moa bones in the turbary deposits of Glenmark, a locality which will ever be 
celebrated in the scientific annals of New Zealand as the spot which, doubtless, 
has furnished the largest quantity and variety of bones available for the 
elucidation of the anatomy of the wonderful, wingless, struthious birds of this 
country. 
The bones described in that paper consisted of a left femur, two ungual 
phalanges, and a rib, all belonging to the same specimen. 
Since the publication of those first notes, further excavations were 
undertaken in the same locality ; and in following down the swampy water- 
course from which these few remains of Harpagornis were previously obtained 
a further series of bones was discovered, which, on examination, proved to be 
another portion of the same skeleton described in that first memoir. 
The bones recently obtained were scattered over the bottom of the turbary 
deposit along the old water-course, 6ft. to 7ft. below the surface, amongst the 
remains of decaying swampy vegetation. They were mixed up with pieces of 
drift timber, and with a considerable number of Moa bones, several of them 
belonging to the larger species (Din. giganteus var. maximus, and Din. robustus). 
The bones obtained during these latter excavations consisted of the 
following :—right and left metatarsus, right and left tibia, right and left fibula, 
right and left ulna, right and left radius (one fragmentary), right and left 
scapula, one rib, five phalanges, four ungual phalanges. 
* At the request of the author, the publication of this paper at full length has 
been deferred until all the illustrations can be published of natural size, in quarto form. 
+ Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 192. 
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