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MEGALAPTERYX TENUIPES lyd 



Megalapteryx tenuipes Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 251 (1891). 



THIS species was described from the tibio-tarsus, which is longer and 

 relatively more slender than in M. hectori. Its distal width is about 

 one-ninth of its length, while in M. hectori it is about one-seventh. 

 The length of the tibio-tarsus is approximately 0-405 mm. = 16 inches, and 

 width of distal extremity about 0-044 == 1-74 inches. Type specimens Nos. 

 49989 and 49990, British Museum. 



Habitat : Middle Island, New Zealand, and perhaps North Island. (Type 

 locality Lake Wakatipa, Queenstown, Otago.) 



Complete skeleton in the Tring Museum. 



Mr. Lydekker mentions also a right femur from the North Island, of 

 the same proportions as those of M. tenuipes and 0*255 m. (= 10-1 inches) long. 

 It may probably belong to a different form, as we know M. tenuipes otherwise 

 only from the Middle Island. 



