. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . art than in the typical bone. Thesecharacters might lead to the surmise that it belonged to a carinate bird, butthe massiveness of the bone was thought sufficient to disprove this. In orderto determine this point with some degree of accuracy, I compa^^ed the weightwith the bulk of the same bone in several species of birds, with the followingresults :— 1. Cnemiornis {Earnscleugh cave) 2. Weka (Ocydromus) (non-volant) 3. Kakapo (Stringops) (non-volant) 4. Kaka (Nestor) (volant) 5. Hawk (Hieracidea) (volant) ...A small portion of the s
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . art than in the typical bone. Thesecharacters might lead to the surmise that it belonged to a carinate bird, butthe massiveness of the bone was thought sufficient to disprove this. In orderto determine this point with some degree of accuracy, I compa^^ed the weightwith the bulk of the same bone in several species of birds, with the followingresults :— 1. Cnemiornis {Earnscleugh cave) 2. Weka (Ocydromus) (non-volant) 3. Kakapo (Stringops) (non-volant) 4. Kaka (Nestor) (volant) 5. Hawk (Hieracidea) (volant) ...A small portion of the shaft was also removed, and the thickness of the bony wall found to be so great that the internal diameter is only two-thirdsthat of the external. In consequence of the above divergence of character from the humerusdescribed by Professor Owen, I was much interested in obtaining the * Trans. Inst., IV., 111. t Trans. Zool. Soc, V., 399, PI. 66. X Trans. Inst., V., 406. Weight. Bulk. 10 244 10 210 10 187 10 131 10 126 ,VOLmPl,
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