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its place to be in the present species. It is 55.5 mm in length, and 5.5 
in least breadth, those of P. gregorii and P. carbo, 60 mm. in length, 
and 6 mm. in breadth. Locality, Lower Cooper. 
Plate IX., fig. 6. — This is a coracoid unknown to the writer. 
SUB-CLASS RATIT^E. 
Dromaius patricius de Vis. 
Pelvis. — The mesial vertebra? of a pelvis deprived of their 
neural arches and of almost all of their processes (Plate IX.). 
Remains of the last crural apophyses for junction with the ilium 
(a), and of the first sacral apophyses (b) are all that 
can be recognized. The first ischiadic apophysis forms, as 
occasionally in other birds, a junction with the last crural. The 
size of the fragment is, under these circumstances, the only guide 
towards a determination of its origin. A pelvis which in this part 
of it very much exceeds in size the corresponding part in the bulkiest 
of our carinate birds, the pelican for example, can only belong to 
one of the great flightless birds, the emu or cassowary to : wit. 
So far as it shews, it might be either, but as no extinct cassowary 
is known as yet in Australia, it seems almost necessary to attribute 
the present fossil to the emu D. patricius. Locality, Wurduluman- 
kula. 
