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at this particular point. The antero-posterior width of the present fossil at the 
fractured end is one and thirteen-sixteenths inches ; that of the bird used above for 
comparison nearly as possible the name. 
The first point which strikes one is the generally more massive outline of this fibula 
than that oi Dinornis, especially in the wider and larger head. The next peculiarity is 
the outer and concave smooth surface under the head, which is noticeably different to 
the structure of the bone both in D. elephaninpus and the Emu. 
Loo. and Horizon. Peak Downs between Lord’s Tableland and the head of 
There.sa Creek {The late Leo. W.B. Clarke— GoWn. Australian Mus.); Caiwaroo Station, 
near Thargomindah, Paroo Eiver (A. 8. Cotter — Colin. Mining and Geol. Mus., Sydney) 
— Eluviatile deposits. 
Eamily — CASUARIIDiE. 
Genus— BBOMAIUS, Vieillot, 1816. 
(Analyse Nouv. Ornith. Element.)* 
Deomaius EATEicixrs, Be Vis. 
Srmaius novce-hollandia, Davies, Geol. Mag., 1884, 1. (3), p. 265.^ 
patricius, De Vis, Proc. Linn, Soo. N. S. Wales, 1888, iii., Pt. 3, t. 36, figs. ISa-o. 
Etheridge fil., Rec. Geol. Survey N. S. Wales, i., Pt. 2, 1889, p. 132, t. 11, f. 4, t. 12, 
f. 3, t. 13, £. 3; Ibid., ii., Pt. 1, 1890, p. 36. 
Droriueus patrioius, Lydekker, Oat. Eoss. Birds Brit. Mus., 1891, p. 352. 
Dromaius patrieius, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1892, vi. (2), Pt. 3, p. 446. 
Ohs. Under this name Mr. De Vis has desci-ibed the proximal and distal ends of 
a right tibia, and a left coracoid, which appear to be distinct from the living Emu 
{Bromaius novcB-hollnndiw). 
Associated with the remains of Bromortiis from the Paroo we have the distal end 
of a right tibia, which is clearly identical with that of Bromaius patricius, and is piobably 
that of a full-grown bird. Chief amongst the many points of interest is the great 
development of the extreme distal end of the shaft, where broken, as compared with the 
condylar portions. That is to say— in the fossil tibia the shaft is much the larger and 
more solid, but in the recent bone the condyles and portions contiguous are by far the 
more massive. In the former the cavity of the shaft is fourteen-sixteenths of an inch 
by eight-sixteenths of an inch, hut in the latter these measurements are reduced to 
twelve-sixteenths and seven-sixteenths respectively. In both the thickness of the bone 
is the same, two-sixteenths of an inch. The marked difference in the size of the two 
hones appears to have also struck Mr. De Vis, and is expressed in his description of the 
distal end of the tibia. i i t+ 
Mr. K. Lydekker ascribes my specimen to New South "Wales, but the lo canty 
whence it is derived is in Queensland. 
Loo. and Horizon. King’s Creek, Darling Downs {C. W. Be TVs— Colin. 
Queensland iMus.) ; Caiwaroo Station, near Thargomindah, Paroo River {A. 8. Cotter- 
Colin. Mining and Geol. Mus., Sydney)— Eluviatile deposits. 
Deomaius beacilipes, Be Vis. 
Drmmius gracilipes, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, 1892, vi. (2), p. 445, t. 23, f. 7a-b. 
Ohs. The distal extremity of a metatarsus smaller and slimmer than that of the 
living B. nov(B-hollandi(B, has prompted the establishment of the present species ; nor 
does any trace of the plantar artery canal, or of the tunnel or groove for the 
descending branch of the artery exist. The above species, B. patricius, is intermediate 
Fidt Agassiz, Nomen. Zook, Pas. 2, p. 26. 
