42 ON DROMORNIS AUSTRALIS. 
Here we have some justification of the opinion I had ventured 
bone in the Emu than in the — and that the characters in 
which it more resembles Dino are concomitant wit and 
we may infer that the species manifested dinornithic strength 
swifter wingless bird peculiar to the Australian contine 
“From the proportions of the femora of Dinornis I infer also 
that Gives of the tibia and metatarse would be longer and more 
slender than in Dinornis elephantopus, and in a greater degree 
f 
omornis would be greater in proportion to the solitary bo ‘bone 
by which we know it than is that of the Disorwis elephantopus. 
é may, therefore, have a comfortable assurance that it indi- 
cates the former existence in Australia of a bird nearly of the 
stature of the ostrich, but with relatively shorter and stronger 
hind limbs. * * * * From the a ee not un- 
forms of e Aust ian continent and the intinct ones of the 
uropean oolitic beds, together with the massive mineralized 
condition of the ornithic and mammalian fossils found deep 
in the enormous superficial accumulations of drift and trappean 
tinent, but that it may have been subject exclusively to the sub- 
aerial conditions of change a the a of the oolitic deposits 
misphe us rni 
paca e been ‘contemporary with the i osname of the ornithicnites 
of Connecticut.” 
These sae of the illustrious paleontologist are not without 
bearing on other points of inquiry on which I have ventured to 
speculate elsewhere 
—_ as my object in this communication is to show what 
ance has made in the history of Dromornis, 1 must go 
further into the anlioet. 
have been on the look out for additional evidence 
as to ‘Teco. but not “ 1876 ng I meet with any. 
In January of that year, when at Goree, near Mudgee, 
‘received intimation i a a large bone had been disinterred from 
depth of 200 feet at the C: Canadian Gold Lead. On going that 
ose with my friend Mr. Lord, I found the bone in the posses- 
sion of Mr, Deitz, a nae corre — of mine on mineral 
petal but not ( eS Se 
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