ON DROMORNIS AUSTRALIS.—APPENDIX. 45 
APPENDIX. 
No. 1. < 
To the Editor of the Herald. 
Sir,—The Rev. W. B. Clarke called kei the Museum a few 
nights ago with the “shankbone” of so e gigantic animal dis- 
covered 180 feet below the surface, in aa cniahiocsan of 
Rockhampton (I think). We com tit the fossil with some of 
the Museum specimens, but as Mr. Clarke was otherwise engaged, 
the bone was left with me for further determination. I informed 
Mr. Clarke the next morning that it was the bone of a gigantic 
ealand. 
IT must confess that I have never seen or the remains 
of a Din ustralia ; and when I suggested 
Clarke that it could not well be any other t a bird bone, I 
was almost afraid that I had made a mistake, owing to the solid 
appearance of the specimen under examination. 
anks to the splendid collection presented to the Museum by 
Dr. Haast, F.R.S., the well known New Zealand geologist, I was 
enabled to convince air that the bone is the right femur of a 
species of Dinornis, which will be fully described hereafter 
Iam, &e., 
May 18th, 1869. GERARD KREFFT. 
No. 2. 
Dryorn 
To the Editor of ee Herald. 
Sir —I am glad Mr. Krefft has annou unced the femur of ate 
in this day’ s Herald, as too many of our discoveries are fi rst made 
known in Englan 
ie bone in question is a rer important discovery. But it 
is not mine ; it was brought to y a penton who states that 
it was found in sinking a well on Peak Downs, between the 
heads of Theresa Creek and "host's Table Moun 
examination, some bones of a Trionyx 2% teeth of Crocodile 
Fe in pena Creek. That district is Gierefire of a very 
er. 
bone was found under 30 feet of alluvial clay 
and mud, covering 150 foot of drift, anal rested on what is said to 
c a granite rock, which, however, was pierced in the a 
of finding water, but of which only a little was reached. 
I am enabled to state, from having broken up many hundred 
pebbles and boulders, that, besides any oyu deposits in that 
region, there i is. an enormous amount of fragments, some only: 
