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a single femur small enough to answer to Professor Owen’s dimensions.” The femur 
in the skeleton of this species (Plate CLIX. fig. 1) repeats, however, the length of 9 inches. 
In the collection from the Glenmark Swamp, South Island, are bones that scarcely 
differ, save in size, from the dimensions of the type bones of Dinornis didiformis from 
the North Island. They are noted as of a large variety of that species'. Capt. 
Hutton remarks:—“ The bones that I have arranged under the name JD. didiformis 
belong probably to a new species. The tibia is well marked and quite distinct ; but the 
femur and metatarsus that I have associated with it pass almost into D, casuarinus, but 
are rather smaller. 1. casuarinus is undoubtedly a good species, easily distinguished 
by its tibia.” 
Possibly the Dinornis of the South Island, with the tibia characteristic of the 
D. didiformis of the North Island, may need to be noted, for the convenience of naming 
the bones, as Dinornis Huttonii. The acute observer to whom it would give me 
pleasure to dedicate such species, proceeds to state:—‘* J. gravis also appears to 
me to be a good species, although the tibia very closely approaches to that of 
D. casuarinus, but is more robust, the length being only about three and a half times 
the circumference of the middle of the shaft, while in D. casuarinus it is more than 
four times the circumference.” 
Capt. Hutton reports that ‘“‘in a limestone cave at ‘ Doctor's Creek, Waritaki’ 
(South Island), a nearly complete skeleton of a Moa was found, the bones lying in their 
proper position, wanting only the head, a few cervical and caudal vertebre, and two 
small phalanges of the outer right toe ;” and he concludes them to have belonged to the 
same individual, 
He gives the following admeasurements of the leg-bones :— 
Femur. Tibia. Metatarse. 
inches, inches. inches, 
Senet. SF 5) 1) They 21:1 9-1 
ircumference at middle 6°83 o°6 6°0 
Breadth proximal. . . 5:1 675 4°15 
Breadth distal « =~ 5 .° ‘+l 5:78 yi 
If these dimensions be compared with those of the type femur of Dinornis crassus 
(ante, p. 153, Plate XL. fig. 4), it will be seen that, with the exception of the breadth 
of the distal end of the bone, the Waritaki specimen closely agrees with the dimensions 
of the specimen from Waikawaite, recorded in the general ‘ Table of Admeasurements,’ 
p- 356. I have elsewhere remarked that limb-bones seem subject to variety as they 
recede in position from the trunk. The excess of breadth of the distal end, 6:1 as 
against 5°25, relates to a larger tibia, which agrees in size with that referred by 
Capt. Hutton to a “ var. major of D. crassus” in his Table B, p. 278 (tom. cit.). 
' See ante, p. 357, addition to Note &. 
