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This second ‘find’ of Harpagornis-remains included right and left metatarsus, right 
and left tibia, right and left fibula, right and left ulna, right and left radius (one frag- 
mentary), right and left scapula, one rib, five phalanges, and four ungual phalanges’. 
A portion of a humerus, “ without doubt belonging to this species, was obtained about 
a mile above Glenmark, from the banks of the Glenmark Creek.” “We obtained 
also the lower portion of a metatarsus from a similar older postpliocene bed situated 
close to Glenmark; so that there is sufficient evidence that this diurnal raptorial 
bird existed, like the Dinornis and Palapteryx species, during a long period in New 
Zealand”*. “ Finally, were discovered on the left bank of the Glenmark Creek, near 
the bottom of the swamp, close to a layer of clay, 7 feet to 8 fect below the surface, 
a pelvis (fragmentary), right and left metatarsus, right and left tibia, right and left 
femur, right humerus, right and left ulna, left metacarpal, left scapula, one rib, four 
phalanges, one ungual phalanx’’’. These were parts of a skeleton of another Harpa- 
gornis of smaller dimensions, and, as Von Haast suggests, exemplifying the usual sexual 
distinction, as to size, in the Raptorial order, the second and smaller series being pro- 
bably those of a male, the first and larger series those of a female of the huge predatory 
species. 
The wanting parts of the mutilated pelvis from the South Island are fortunately 
supplied by a perfect specimen of that compound bone of Harpagornis, which was 
included in a series of bones found by Mr, W. A. Low, on the surface-soil under an 
overhanging rock, in the vicinity of Cowes, in the “Obelisk range of hills,” in the 
province of Otago, South Island, New Zealand’, ‘This supplementary series was 
forwarded by Mr. Low to the Museum at Wellington, where the nature of the pelvis 
was recognized by Dr. von Haast, to whom it was submitted by the accomplished 
Director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, Dr. Hector, F.R.S. Photographs 
of all the above remains, with admeasurements, have been kindly transmitted to me, 
from which I have selected the characteristic bones figured of the natural size in 
Pls. CV., CVLI., and CVII. in illustration of the Harpagornis moorei of Von Haast. 
The raptorial pelvis is characterized by the great proportional extent of its ant- 
acetabular part (Pl. CV. fig. 1, af), by the depth, strong definition, and muscular 
sculpturing of the surface of the ectiliac fosss (ib, ib. 62), by the breadth of the ilio 
sacral disk, by the depth and strength of the ischia between the ischiadic (ib. ib. m) 
and obturator (ib. ib, g) foramina, and by the close connexion of the pubis (ib. ib. 64) 
with the ischium (ib. ib. 63) beyond or behind the obturator foramen. ‘The conformity 
of the pelvis of Zarpagornis with that of our Blue Harrier® in the foregoing characters 
' Trans. & Proc, N.Z. Institute, yol. vi. p. 62. * Tb, ib, p. 63. * Tb. ib, p, 63. 
4 Tb. vol. iv. p. 114, Of this pelvis, Dr. Hector writes :—‘It is in wonderful preservation, and is still 
covered with periosteum, and has the capsular and some other ligaments adherent, while the osseous substance 
has lost hardly any of the original animal matter which it contained.” 
® Circus cyaneus, Bp., Circus hudsonius, Vieill, See the beautiful figure of this eae oul raptorial 
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