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MULLERORNIS MILNE-EDWARDS & GRANDIDIER. 



BIRDS of medium size, not having the heavy and massive build of 

 Aepyornis. They appear to resemble more closely the Casuaridae. 

 Known only from leg bones. 

 Number of species : 2. 



MULLERORNIS BETSILEI MILNE-EDW. & GRAND. 



Mullerornis betsilei Milne- Edwards and Grandidier, Compt. Rend., CXVIII, p. 125 (1894). 



ORIGINAL description as follows: — "The leg bones are slender, the 

 tarso-metatarsus is not enlarged as in the preceding genus, and the 

 section through the shaft shows almost an isosceles triangle. The 

 bone itself having more the proportion of Dromaius. 



" Length of tibio-tarsus .... .... .... .... 390 mm. 



Circumference of tibio-tarsus .... .... .... 90 ,, 



Width of tibio-tarsus 30 „ 



Width of proximal end .... .... .... .... 75 „ 



Width of distal end 60 „ 



Length of tarso-metatarsus 310 „ 



Circumference of tarso-metatarsus .... 80 ,, 



Width of shaft of tarso-metatarsus .... .... 27 „ 



Width of proximal end .... .... .... .... 70 ,, 



" Mullerornis betsilei inhabited the same area as Ae. mulleri but was 

 much rarer." (Translated.) 



Habitat : Central Madagascar. 



