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This second 'find' of Harpagornis-remains included right and left metatarsus, right
and left tibia, right and left fibula, right and left ulna, right and left radius (one frag-
mentary), right and left scapula, one rib, five phalanges, and four ungual phalanges 1.
A portion of the humerus, "without doubt belonging to this species, was obtained about
a mile above Glenmark, from the banks of the Glenmark Creek." "We obtained
also the lower portion of a metatarsus from a similar older postpliocene bed situated
close to Glenmark ; so that there is sufficient evidence, during a long period in New
Zealand". 2. "Finally, were discovered on the left bank of the Glenmark Creek , near
the bottom of the swamp, close to a layer of clay, 7 feet to 8 feet below the surface,
a pelvis (fragmentary), right and left metatarsus, right and left tibia, right and left
femur, right humerus, right and left ulna, left metacarpal, left scapula, one rib, four
phalanges , one ungual phalanx "3. These were parts of a skeleton of another Harpa-
gornis of smaller dimensions, and, as Von Haast suggests, exemplifyinng the usual sexual
distinction, as to size in the Raptorial order, the second and smaller series being pro-
bably those of a male, the first and larger series those of a female of the huge predatory
species.

The wanting parts of the mutilated pelvis from the South Island are fortunately
supplied by a perfect specimen of that compound bone of Harpagornis, which was
included in the series of bones found by Mr. W. A. Low, on the surface-soil under an
overhanging rock, in the vicinity of Cowes, in the "Obelisk range of hills," in the
province of Otago, South Island, New Zealand 4. This supplementary series was
forwarded by Mr. Low to the Museum at Wellington, where the nature of the pelvis
was recognized by Dr. von Haast, to whom it was submitted by the accomplished
Director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, Dr. Hector, F.R.S. Photographs
of all the above remains, with admeasurements, have been kindly transmitted to me,
from which I have selected the characteristic bones figured of the natural size in
Pls. CV.,CVI.,and CVII.in illustration of the Harpagornis moorei of Von Haast.

The raptorial pelvis is characterized by the great proportional extent of its ant-
acetabular part (Pl. CV. fig. 1, a-f), by the depth, strong definition, and muscular
sculpturing of the surface of the ectiliac fossae (ib. ib. 62), by the breadth of the ilio
sacral disk, by the depth and strength of the ischia between the ischiadic (ib. ib. m)
and obturator (ib. ib. q) foramina, and by the close connexion of the pubis (ib. ib. 64)
with the ischium (ib. ib. 63) beyond or behind the obturator foramen. The conformity
of the pelvis of Harpagornis with that of our Blue Harrier 5 in the foregoing characters

1. Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Institute, vol. vi. p. 62. 2. Ib. ib. p. 63. 3. Ib. ib. p 63.
4. Ib. vol. iv. p 114. Of this pelvis, Dr. Hector writes :- "It is in wonderful preservation, and is still
covered with periosteum, and has the capsular and some other ligaments adherent, while the osseous substance
has lost hardly any of the original animal matter which it contained."
5. Circus cyaneus, Bp., Circus hudsonius, Vieill. See the beautiful figure of this well-known active raptorial
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