discovered in New Zealand. 
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or even larger than the Ornithichnites giganteus of 
Professor Hitchcock; and any lingering doubts of that 
being a great tridactyle bird have been chased out of 
mind by the remains in question. Mr. Broderip re¬ 
marks that the paper read by Professor Owen before the 
Zoological Society in November, 1839, on the fragments 
of a femur of this bird, has come true to the letter; the 
terminations of the imperfect bone, which he had drawn 
on his copy of the plate then published, might have been 
sketched from the perfect bone; and all this, not from any 
guess, but from severe philosophical induction. 
Art. II. Account of Macquarie Harbour. By T. G. 
Lempriere, Esq., D.A.C.G. 
[Continued from page 31.] 
The climate of Macquarie Harbour, although subject to 
constant variations in the weather, and particularly to 
heavy rains, is far from unhealthy. The number of com¬ 
plaints contracted at the Settlement were few—rheu¬ 
matism, dysentery, and scurvy, were the prevailing 
diseases; and the first alone can be said to appertain to 
this climate, as the two latter were principally caused by 
the prisoner’s food, and also his occupation, which daily 
exposed him to work in the water. 
The Settlement being constantly rationed on salt provi¬ 
sions, and not supplying a quantity of vegetables sufficient 
for all the prisoners, scorbutic patients formed the largest 
proportion of the sick couvicts; whilst the officers and mi¬ 
litary, who received a regular supply of vegetables, occa- 
