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thenurus : minor 
Fakpplornsitel to the notice of the new fossil bird, Dromornis Australis 
(Owen). By the Rev. W. B. Crarkg,; Ma F.RS., &e.] 
Notice of a New Fossil Extinct Species of Kangaroo, 
(Owen pe 
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[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 5 December, 1877.] 
sae i foe of the paper on Dromornis, I mentioned that I had 
d fro r. Lowe, of Goree, a portion of a skull of an 
e ditinet sie which I was informed came sige a lead in the 
neighbourhood of the “ pelvis” of the new fossil bi 
1 sent them in the sanre box to Professor oe, 
reported on the skull, in he ns a of the Zoological Society 
of London, of April 17,1 
i As that report may Ae. ‘ail in the way of some members of 
this Society, it may be useful to make the existence of the new 
arsupial known to them by quotations from Professor Owen’s 
remarks, in order to assist in extending information on the 
me of Australia. 
report is headed, “ On a new species of Sthenurus, with 
: cae s on the relation of the genus to Dorcopsis, Miiller. By 
) : or huats Owen, C.B., F.R.S., F.Z.8., &e.” (Plates xxxvu and 
a XXXVIIT. 
The author says :— The pres sent species of extinct kangaroo is 
founded on a fossil fragment of a skull, including the molar series 
y not be unacceptable to the Society, which has y 
admitted illustrations of extinet animals i lications. 
| ? The fossil was found in a ‘rocky alluvial deposit,’ in the shaft of 
oun 
. * gold-lead in the County of Phillip,* New — Wales, Aus- 
tralia, -and was transmitted to me by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, 
\% M.A., F.R.S., the veteran geologist of New Sth Wales. The 
ft ~ _ , fossil is in a inaccive petrified condition. 
“The smallest a es of the extinct genus, known at the date 
of my eighth paper on the “Fossil Mammals of Australia,” 
(P. TY, 1874), was the t eye of one — atlas), in which the 
ee: 
wh h this 
i; ~~ correction, as the only way of wr ng in this note ‘the change "of habitat, : 
} + andin ustice e to Professo r Owen. 
