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• Nxeoca eeclusa, De Vis. 
N'yroca australis et redusa, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1888, iii. (2), Pt. 3, pp. 1281 and 1292, 
t. 33, f, 3. 
Obs. A coracoid bone is referred to the recent species N. australis, Gould. “ It 
is the first instance, within the Writer’s personal experience, of identity, or even of 
affinity so close, between recent and post-pliocene vertebrates from Darling Downs.” In 
a postscript, however, reasons are assigned for regarding it as distinct from Nyroca 
australis, and the specific name redusa is given to it. 
Loo. and Horizon. Chinchilla, Darling Downs (O'. W. De Vis — Colin. Queens- 
land Mus.) — Chinchilla Conglomerate. 
Pamily— PLOTID^. 
Genus — PLOTUS, Linnmus, 1766. 
(Syst. Nat., Ed. xii.) 
Plotps paevus, De Vis. 
Plotus parvus, De Vis, Proc. Linn. See. N. S. Wales, 1888, iii. (2), Pt. 3, p. 1286, t. 35, f. 10a and 6. 
Obs. A left humerus would appear to indicate the presence of a Darter, with 
certain affinities to the Pelicanidae. “ Together with the essential traits of Plotus this 
bone has, as we have seen, a few indications of extraneous affinity — perhaps we may 
infer that, as an early form of the geuus, it had not attained the high specialisation of 
its later representative.” 
Loe. and Horizon. Chinchilla, Darling Downs ((7. W. De Vis — Colin. Queens- 
land Mus.) — Chinchilla Conglomerate. 
Eamily— COLDMBIDJE. 
Genus— LITHOPHAPS, De Vis, 1891. 
(Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, vi. (2), Pt. 1, p. 121.) 
Lithophaes ulnaeis, De Vis. 
Lithophaps ulnaris, De Vis, Loc. cit., p. 122. 
Obs. A genus and species founded on an ulna having the general proportions of 
the genus Chaleophaps. It is thus described — ” Ulna stout, index 7-38, subcylindrical, 
continuously arched, with a single row of eight remigial tubercles ; arthral surfaces as 
in Meyaloprepia.” 
Loo. and Horizon. Neighbourhood of Warwick, Darling Downs {H. Hurst — 
Colin. Queensland Mus.) 
Family — GOUEID.®. 
Genus — PPOGUBA, De Vis, 1888. 
(Proc. K. Soc. Queensland, v., Pt. 4, p. 131.) 
Peoguea oallinacea, De Vis. 
Progura gallmacea, De Vis, Loc. cit., p. 127, 2d. pi., 4 side figs. 
Obs. The presence of a Goura or “ Ground Pigeon” during Post-Tertiary times 
is indicated, according to Mr. De Vis, by four portions of metatarsals. Affinity with 
the genus Goura is “indicated by the shortness of the calcaneal process, sudden 
attenuation of the inner edge of the bone at its proximal end, elevation of the hind toe, 
rapid expansion of the distal end, and subsequent descent of the lateral trochleas.” 
The fossils are twice the size of the corresponding bones of Goura. 
Loc. and Horizon. Chinchilla and Gowrie Creek, Darling Downs * {G. TV. De 
Vis — Colin. Queensland Mus.) 
Information supplied by Mr. De Vis. 
