48 ON DROMORNIS AUSTRALIS.—APPENDIX. 
The naked fact of the discovery of Dinornis in this country is 
of — value as to geological inferences. 
may add, in a that I look ei to further dis- 
coveries in the vast accumulations of drift that encumber some 
of the localities in aes neighbourhood of the ri rivers watering the 
Leichhardt district, where, among other relics, are those of the 
Carboniferous formation, which now —- only the wreck of 
ais BL CLARKE, F.G.8. 
St. Leonards, New South Wales, 19th May, 1869. 
P.S.—I haye omitted to — re in the collection I exhi- 
bited at Pi Paris in 1865, No. 49 co ted of osseous breccia (bird 
bones) from the Coodradigbee ieee in New South Wales. So 
Dinornis, ‘aie new, is not the first of the order. 
No. 4. 
Extract from the “Transactions of ee Society of 
London’’—vol. viii, part 
On Drvornis (Part xix): se a description of 
Femur indicative of a new genus of large Wingless Bird, Dro- 
MORNIS AUSTRALIS, Owen, from a _ post-tertiary deposit im 
Queensland, Australia. Read June 4th, 1872. 
[Plates LXII and LXIII.] 
In 1836 Sir Thomas Mitchell, F.G.S., Surveyor General of 
Australia, discovered in the breccia-cave of Wellington Valle 
a femur, Serene: the lower om mutilated, and incrusted wit 
oser ities. 
ee views of this fossil, of rather less than half the natural 
size, formed the saline. of pl. 32, figs. 12, 13, of my “ Palzon- 
tol oor ppendix ” to Mitchell’s work. 
of this fossil was _ parr the breadth of the 
nit of the shaft was not quite : 
nches 
_ In 1869, the Rey. W. B. Clarke, F.G.S., made known the 
well was sunk t 30 feet of the black eaameael 
alluvial soil common in that part of ior and then through 
150 feet of drift pebbles and boulders, on one of which boulders 
(“at that depth,” 150?) rested a short thick femur, so filled 
