RE a Fe eS ee ee 
ON DROMORNIS AUSTRALIS.—APPENDIX. 49 
with aa gr matter (cale spar and iron pyrites) as to give the 
al s 
intern ructure more the appearance of a reptilian than an 
ornithic con 
Mr. Clarke submitted this fossil to the able Curator of the 
Australian Museum, Sydney, and states that “ Mr. Krefft had 
compared it with a collection = over from New Yealenrd by Dr. 
Haast, and has tein enable sau bang it to be a 
longing to Dinor The communication is accordingly heated 
ss ap 30 an Avates lian genua” 
So exceptional an extension of New Zealand fonns of life to 
the Australian continent greatly added to my desire of further 
and more intimate acquaintance with this second evidence of a 
poe extinct Australian bird, more especially as the femora of © 
inornis received from New Zealand subsequently to the pub- 
Vioation of Mitchell’s work led me to perceive, from the ante- 
posterior compression of the shaft and the sessile position of the 
head of the femur from the Wellington Valley cavern, that t it 
resembled that bone in the Emu rather than in the Dinornis.’ 
My wishes on this point, as others connected with the paleon- 
tology of Australia, met with a prompt and hearty response. 
The Trustees of the Australian Museum directed the wniaae 
one 
cast. 
Mr. Krefft was so ee as to aa three photographs taken of 
the fossil: one showing the bae ew of the bone, three- e-fifths 
of the nat size ; ‘the two tind the front views of the 
proximal and distant halves of the bone, of very nearly. the 
natural size. 
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