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best representative of the pachydermal type in the feathered class.” 
The third new species is comparatively a small one, being inter¬ 
mediate in size between the Dinornis didiformis and the Din. 
otidiformis; it was founded on remains exclusively from the 
North Island, and was called by the author Dinornis curtus. 
The author expressed his grateful acknowledgments to the fol¬ 
lowing gentlemen, to whom he was indebted for the opportunity 
of examining and depicting the specimens described in the present 
memoir:—Capt. Sir Everard Home, Bart., R.N.; the Hon. 
William Martin, Chief Justice of New Zealand ; the Rev. Arch¬ 
deacon Williams, Corr. Mem. Z. S.; William Swainson, Esq., 
F.R.S., F.L.S., the distinguished naturalist; Colonel William 
Wakefield ; J. R. Gowen, Esq., a Director of the New Zealand 
Company ; the Rev. William Cotton, M.A.; the Rev. Richard 
Taylor, M.A.; the Rev. William Colenso, M.A.; Dr. Mackellar ; 
George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S.; and Percy Earl, Esq. 
The paper (which was illustrated by numerous figures) con¬ 
cluded by some general comparisons and remarks on the geogra¬ 
phical distribution of the different species of Dinornis, and with 
the following table of admeasurements of the bones of Dinornis 
in comparison with those of existing Struthionidse.* 
April 11, 1846. 
John Gould, Esq., read a description of a new species of 
Cinclosoma: — 
Cinclosoma cinnamomeus. Cine, toto supcriore corpore 
scapularibus, rectricibus duabus intermediis, pectore ad 
latera, et lateribus cinnamomeis; alarum tectricibus nigris, 
plumis singulis ad apices albis ; lined superciliari indistincte 
[*] Average Dimensions of Bones of Dinornis 
Din. 
giganteus. 
Din. ingens. 
Ostrich. 
Din. 
crassus. 
Length of femur . 
Circumference of ditto. 
Length of tibia. 
Circumference of tibia.. ., . 
Length of metatarsus .. . 
Circumference of ditto. 
in. lin. 
16 0 
7 3 
35 0 
6 6 
18 6 
5 6 
in. lin. 
13 6 
6 10 
28 10 
6 0 
14 0 
5 0 
in. lin. 
11 0 
6 3 
18 6 
4 3 
16 0 
3 7 
in. lin. 
12 o 
6 8 
8 6 
4 8 
