. A dictionary of birds . istinct, the name novsc-zcalamUx should beadopted for the latter. Fig. 2. Right Tarso-metataesus of Pachyorniselephantopus (A), and Dinornis struthioides(B), 1/6. Anterior aspect. (From the samework.) AfOA 581 oiveiii, in -which the tibia measures only 92, the smallest. A. j)arvais the only member of the Family of which there is a perfectskeleton in English collections. It is identified by Capt. HuttonAnth the typical A. didiformis; but a skeleton transmitted by VonHaast to the British Museum and assigned to the latter has arelatively smaller skull.^ In the type of A.

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. A dictionary of birds . istinct, the name novsc-zcalamUx should beadopted for the latter. Fig. 2. Right Tarso-metataesus of Pachyorniselephantopus (A), and Dinornis struthioides(B), 1/6. Anterior aspect. (From the samework.) AfOA 581 oiveiii, in -which the tibia measures only 92, the smallest. A. j)arvais the only member of the Family of which there is a perfectskeleton in English collections. It is identified by Capt. HuttonAnth the typical A. didiformis; but a skeleton transmitted by VonHaast to the British Museum and assigned to the latter has arelatively smaller skull.^ In the type of A. {Mesopteryx) didina theinteguments of the head and feet are still preserved. Emeus, Reichenbach, was established on D. crassus, Owen. It is arather large species, to which Owen and Von Haast assigned a broad-billed skull, and although Capt. Hutton states that the skull isreally of the narrow-beaked type of Anomcdopteryx, we have reasonto believe that the original view is correct. This Moa was confined tothe South

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