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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 concure 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
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.