16 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No. 6 
-of the fossil across the condyles is 11.25 mm., against 12.75 in N. 
australis. Locality, Wurdulumankula. 
Nettapus eyrensis n.s. 
Humerus. — Plate IV., fig 9. — Distal third of right humerus. 
The first evidence of the antiquity of the Pygmy Geese 
which has occurred to me. It is but a small fragment, 
but it retains enough character to shew its affinity with 
the genus and distinctness from the living kinds pulchellus 
and albipennis. It may be recognised by the form and 
direction of the probrachialis impression (a), which in the 
living birds is broad and inclined but little from the longitudinal 
axis of the bone, this in the fossil is a long narrow tract much 
inclined to that axis. Between the distal ends of the tract and the 
radial condyle is a distinct smooth transverse concavity (b), 
which, in the recent bone, is not found, and beyond the end 
of the tract on the entepicondyle is a round scar (d) for 
insertion of ligament, replaced in recent bones by an imperfectly 
flat surface. The old pygmy goose appears to have been of the 
same size as Nettapus albipennis. Locality, Lower Cooper. 
Coracoid. — Plate IV., fig. 10. — Fragment of upper end and 
part of shaft of a right coracoid of a Nettapus, which accords 
in size with* the humerus above described. With the exception 
of the tip of the acromoidial process, the bone, so far as it goes, is 
fairly entire. Locality, Lower Cooper. 
FAMILY STEGANOPODES. 
Pelecanus grandiceps n.s. 
Quadrate. — Except for the loss of the orbital process, a 
fairly well preserved bone of the left side (Plate V., fig. 1 A, B). This 
must have been derived from a distinctly larger bird than the present 
P. conspicillatus . At its base along the mandibular articulation, 
it measures 26.5 mm., the quadrate of the living bird only 22mm. 
Its height from the anterior end of the base to the end of the surface 
for the squamosal, is 36 mm. against 30.5 mm. in P. conspicillatus. 
The head of this fossil pelican was therefore one-fifth longer than 
that of the present one. It would probably be about 21 inches in 
length (534 mm.) Structurally, it of course much resembles the 
quadrate of a modern representative of the genus, but there are 
peculiarities about it which may be thought to shew that it is 
not identical with any of them. The surface of the bone is thrown 
into much deeper tracts and higher ridges. The cavity for the 
pterygoid articulation (c) is on its inferior margin scarcely 
-delimited, the ridge of the orbital process (d) failing to 
descend upon the anterior end of the mandibular process, and so 
separate the cavity from the outer surface. The foramen at the 
