Haast.—On the Extinct Genus Harpagornis. 63 
Our search after the pelvis, sternum, and cranium, was in vain, so that I 
shall not be able to offer a description of these important parts of the 
Glenmark skeleton ; but, as will be seen in the sequel, I can at least do so as 
far as the pelvis of the species is concerned, Dr. Hector having kindly handed 
over to me, for such purpose, a well-preserved specimen of that compound bone, 
found in one of the Otago caves.* 
This list does also not contain any humerus, but we possess at least a 
fragmentary one, without doubt belonging to this species, which was obtained 
about a mile above Glenmark, from the banks of the Glenmark Creek. These 
banks rise in some places about 100ft. above the water-line, in nearly 
perpendicular cliffs, and consist of postpliocene alluvium, formed by large beds 
of shingle, with which smaller deposits of sand and turbary deposits are 
interstratified. 
We obtained also the lower portion of a metatarsus, from a similar older 
postpliocene bed situated close to Glenmark, so that there is sufficient evidence 
to show that this diurnal raptorial bird existed, like the Dinornis and 
Palapteryx species, during a long period in New Zealand. 
Some time after having made the discovery of the further portion of the 
skeleton of Harpayornis moorei, in continuing our excavations on the 
Glenmark property, on the left bank of the Glenmark Creek, and opposite the 
spot previously alluded to, we obtained, amongst a considerable quantity of 
Moa bones, a large portion of another skeleton of a raptorial bird, which, 
although of smaller size than the first-named species, is still of remarkable 
dimensions. These bones were found not far apart, and near the bottom of 
the swamp, close to a layer of clay, 7ft. to 8ft. below the surface. 
This new find consisted of the following bones: pelvis (fragmentary), 
right and left metatarsus, right and left tibia, right and left femur, right 
humerus, right and left ulna, left metacarpal, left scapula, one rib, four 
phalanges, one ungual phalanx. 
In comparing these with the bones of Harpagornis moorei, it became at 
once evident that they belonged either to a closely allied form, or, making 
allowance for sex, to the former species. 
The disproportion in size of our recent diurnal raptorial birds is so great, 
that even at the present time the question as to the existence of one or two 
species of Hieracidea is not yet definitely settled. This remarkable difference 
in size is also observable in the New Zealand Harrier, where the female is 
* This is one of the bones referred to in Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 114 (foot- 
е as having been forwarded by Mr. W. A. Low, which were found in the surface soil 
der an overhanging rock, and E in a proper cave. This particular bone is iu 
шар т preservation, and is still covered with periosteum and has the capsular and 
some other ligaments adherent, while the osseous — has lost hardly any of the 
original animal matter which it contained. —J. HEC 
