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MEMOIR 
ON THE 
INTEGUMENT OF THE SOLE, AND TENDONS OF A TOE, OF THE FOOT, 
OF THE 
DINORNIS ROBUSTUS. 
"THROUGH the liberality of the President and Council of the Philosophical Society 
of York, I have had transmitted to me for examination the portion of the foot, with the 
adherent tendons and integuments, of the skeleton of the Moa referred to in the letter 
of Dr. Hector, F.G.S., quoted at p. 154, which skeleton, having been presented to the 
Museum of the Philosophical Society, I have been able to determine and refer to the 
Dinornis robustus. 
The toe, so preserved, with the tendons, sesamoids, and tegumentary sole-pads 
(Pl. LXI.), is the inner one (i) of the right foot, and includes the three phalanges, 
corresponding in size and character with those figured in Pl. XLIX. fig. 1, «1, 2,3, p. 190. 
To the outer side of the proximal end of the first phalanx the capsule of the joint 
adheres (Pl. LXI. fig. 1, e), whence it is continued upon the same side of that part, 
inclosing the metatarsal trochlea, and is extended upon the upper part of the sheath of 
the tendons (a, b,c) and sesamoids (s), beneath the joint between that phalanx and the 
corresponding (innermost) trochlea of the tarsometatarsal. Part of the dried cartilage 
also adheres at f to the proximal articular surface of the phalanx. 
The terminal portions of the tendon (a), inserted, by means of the sesamoids and 
their ligaments, into the base of the first phalanx, part of the perforating tendon (8, n), 
similarly inserted into that of the second phalanx, and part of the upper or innermost 
perforating tendon (c), which is continued to that of the last phalanx, are here preserved. 
The largest portion of the sole-skin includes the pad (ib. fig. 2, d, d') beneath the 
trochlear division of the metatarse answering to the above toe, with part of that which 
extended beneath the middle trochlea, but wanting the outer portion. The under 
surface of so much as remains of this ‘ heel-pad’ measures 3 inches 8 lines by 3 inches 

