IX 
ON A FOSSIL BIRD AND A FOSSIL CETACEAN 
FROM NEW ZEALAND 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xv., 1859, pp. 670-677. 
(Read March 23rd, 1859.) 
SOME time ago, my friend Mr. Walter Mantell submitted to my 
examination two fossil bones from tertiary deposits at Kakaunui and 
Parimoa in New Zealand. 
Of these, the one is the right tarso-metatarsal bone of a Bird 
belonging to the Penguin family, the other the humerus of a Cetacean 
of small size. 
Fossil Bird —The former bone (of which a front view is repre- 
sented in fig. 1, and a back view in fig. 2) measures two inches and 
a half in extreme length, and rather more than an inch and a quarter 
across its proximal end. The precise width at the distal end cannot 
be given, as the innermost part of this extremity of the bone has 
been broken away; what remains measures 1-;th inch. 
The proximal end of the bone presents two articular facets,—the 
one internal, an oval, shallow concavity, looking upwards and a little 
inwards, the other external, quadrilateral, slightly convex from before 
backwards, slightly concave from side to side, and inclined more 
obliquely upwards and outwards. The two facets are separated by a 
stout median ridge, which rises into a conical tuberosity anteriorly, 
but dies away posteriorly into a shallow triangular pit. The posterior 
edges of both facets are rather more raised than the anterior ones ; 
and marked transverse depressions separate both from the upper 
extremities of the four strong calcaneal ridges which project from the 
upper part of the posterior face of the bone (fig. 2). 
