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EMEUS PARKERI nom nov. 



Emeus species V, Parker, Trans. Zool. Soc. XIII, p. 380 (1895). 



HIS species is at once distinguished from the other species of the genus 



I by having right-angled orbits. The type is a skull from Hamilton 

 Swamp, named Euryapteryx gravis, by Prof. Hutton, in the Otago 

 Museum. 



Habitat : Middle Island, New Zealand. 



Dinornis didiformis Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. Ill, pi. 24 (1846), part. 



Euryapteryx exilis Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXIX, p. 552, pi. XLVIII, Fig. C (1897). 



DIFFERS from E. crassus in the tibia being more convex on the 

 anterior surface. The skull, among other differences, has a very 

 slight frontal rising to the cranial roof, as opposed to the very 

 conspicuous one in the remaining species. The type is a nearly complete 

 skeleton in the Wanganui Museum. For full description see Hutton, I.e. 

 Habitat : North Island, New Zealand. 



EMEUS 



(HUTT.) 



