Haast. — On the Extinct Genus Harpagoi'nis. 63 



Our search after the pelvis, sternum, and cranium, was in vain, so that I 

 shall not be able to ojffer 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 

 Falapteryx species, during a long jjeriod in New Zealand. 



Some time after having made the discovery of the further portion of the 

 skeleton of Harpagornis m,oorei, 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 IIaT2oagornis 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 pi-esent time the question as to the existence of one or two 

 species of Hieracidea is not yet definitely settled. This remarkable difterence 

 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- 

 note), as having been forwarded by Mr. W. A. Low, which were found in the surface soil 

 under an overhanging rock, and not in a proper cave. This particular bono is in 

 wonderful preservation, and is still covered with periosteiun and has the cai)sular and 

 some other ligaments adherent, while the osseous substance has lost liardly any of the 

 original animal matter which it contained. — J. Hector. 



