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 * Dinornis rheides Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. IV, p. 8 (1850—partim).


 * Syornis rheides Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXIV, p. 131 (1892).

HIS is a very difficult form to consider, as the type bones consisted of those of three different forms. Whether Professor Owen, were he now alive, would concur in Captain Hutton's treatment is very questionable, and I doubt if it ought not to be united to Emeus crassus, while Haast united it to P. gravis. I have kept it separate as no bones of a single individual united are known, and it might prove sufficiently distinct if a good skeleton were obtained. The type bones were sent from Waikawaite, Middle Island, by Colonel Wakefield, in 1849.

Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand.


 * Dinornis casuarinus Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. III, p. 307 (1846).


 * Syornis casuarinus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. der Vög, p. XXX (1850).


 * Meionornis casuarinus Haast, Trans. N.Z. Inst., VII, pp. 54-91 (1875).


 * Syornis casuarinus Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., XXIV, p. 133 (1892).

CASUARINUS is found in both Islands, and is abundant in the Middle Island.

The type came from Waikowaiti.

Habitat: New Zealand.

Portions of one skeleton and two almost complete skeletons in Tring Museum; one of the latter from Kapua Swamps.