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Valley and in Goree, near Mudgee, New South Wales, at Peak Downs, in Queensland, 
and in the Mount Gambier range in South Australia. From each of these localities 
the witnesses concur in testifying to an addition of another genus of gigantic birds to 
the unwinged group—a genus which existed and has become extinct in the Australian 7 
continent, and which had closer kinship with the still existing struthious genera of 
that continent than with the extinct Moas of New Zealand. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE. 
PLATE CXVIII. 
Distal portion of tibia of Dromornis australis. 
Fig. 1. Back view. 
Fig. 2. Front view. 
Fig. 3. Inner side view. 
Fig. 4. Broken end of shaft, showing thickness of wall and size of medullary cavity. 
