46 ON DROMORNIS AUSTRALIS.—APPENDIX. 
partially rounded, of Silurian, Carboniferons, and Secondary ages, 
as well as those belo onging to local igneous rocks, among which 
“ Tertiary river,’ which was explained differently by me in a 
correspondence T had on the subject with the late Gold Commis- 
sioner at Clermont. 
The Dinornis bone leads to the inference that views long ago. 
expressed by me of the former connection of New Zealand with 
- this country were correct. 
But I am bound to say that this ee is not the first evidence 
of the existence of birds in Australia in oe ge aes ae for 
on reference to the Catalogue of Te ust Products of New 
South Wales, exhibited in the Australian Mckews in Noveaiee 
1854, and afterw: ards in Paris, you will find enumerated in the 
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South Wales has prece eiled  aeoaaet in the discovery ‘of bird 
bones of Hieiesna age. 
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ddubs as to the genus. 
W.B.C. 
No. 3. 
Drnornis AN AUSTRALIAN GENUS. 
To the Editor of the Geological Magazine. 
uu 40! etween 
Table Mountain and wey a of Theresa Creek, near the track 
The well passe cheng 30 feet of black trappean alluvial soil, 
$o — im pene which rested on 150 feet of drift pebbles 
