ON DROMORNIS AUSTRALIS. 43 
- to me) a femur or other limb bone of ec ae but a 
ment: of the pelvis of a bird, which was consi <8 Paden 
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,a on- 
clusion that it had also resemblance to ‘scien but was not the 
pelvis of the tru 
Photographs of it were — sent yf me to Professor 
en, and a model of it was made by the taxide muse hae 
Museum fort that institution, from the Trustees of which I received 
a co 
The 0 riginal pelvis I sent on to Professor Owen by Captain 
Pile, of the “ Patriarch.” The latter had not reached its destina- 
tion on the 31st January, 1877, the date of the Professor's last 
letter to me; but ina former letter, under date of August 1, 
1876, he wrote thus :—I have to-day received your note of 9th 
June, with the accompanying photographs. I make out the left 
acetabulum and a parts of the pelvis of a bird about 
ny size of Dinornis ingens, but differing in certain proportions 
parts.” 
On the 5th December he writes: “ As to the big wingless bird, 
the eg de bone yielding information testified against its Moa-ship. 
Your later pelvic fragment (in the photo.) does not speak 
decidedly proor con. This gossiping commencement will 
till I receive your kindly transmitted box, when its contents wil 
have my best attention, and the results will be annexed.” 
On 31st January he adds :—“ I will not "actors defer posting 
the previous note with this supplement, because, since writi 
on 5th December, I have had the lower portion of a tibia, found 
in the Gambier Ranges, sent from South Australia. It corre- 
sent a description of it, with ie aaaral drawings, ‘to. 
Zoological Society. This bone determines beyond question the 
fact of the rai existence in the Australias of a wingless or 
flightless bi ste the size of Dinornis eg but of a genne 
om 
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trary be had, as parts of Dromornis Australis. And we now have 
oo of the former extensive range of the bird on your great 
The be bone from Wellington Valley w: was mentioned in the 
“Memoir on the Queensland Femur,’ and was described and 
