Habitat: Island of Decrès or Kangaroo Island.
One stuffed specimen (Type) and one skeleton in Paris, one skeleton in Florence, and one stuffed specimen in Liverpool (an species diversa?). Also some leg-bones in Adelaide, Australia.
Dr. H. O. Forbes, who kindly lent me the last-named specimen, was the first to point out the differences of this bird from _D. novaehollandiae_. It is certainly totally distinct from birds of similar age of either _D. novaehollandiae_ or _D. n. irroratus_. { 237}
_Dromaeus minor_ Baldwin Spencer, Vict. Nat. XXIII, p. 140 (1906).
As Mr. Bernard H. Woodward, of Perth, West Australia, was organising an expedition to Kangaroo, Flinders, and King Islands (December, 1906), to hunt for Emu remains on these islands, I had hoped to be the first to describe what I felt sure would be two new species of _Dromaius_. I have, however, been forestalled by Professor Baldwin Spencer in the case of King Island, whence a collection of 17 femurs, 19 tibio-tarsi, 28 tarso-metatarsi, and portions of 8 pelves, made by Messrs. Alex. Morton and R. M. Johnston, T.S.O., formed the material for the description of a new species.
The diagnosis is as follows: "Smaller than _D. ater_ (= _D. peronii_ mihi). Tibia not or only slightly exceeding 330 mm. in greatest length. Tarso-metatarsus not exceeding 280 mm. in greatest length. Pelvis, length not or only slightly exceeding 280 mm."
_D. minor_ was a smaller but stouter bird than _D. peronii_. Comparative dimensions:--
_D. peronii_. _D. minor_. Tibio-tarsus 342 mm. 320-332 mm. Tarso-metatarsus 290 " 277-287 " Femur 180 " 170-180 " Pelvis 340 " 274-280 " Pelvis, front width 75 " 64 " Pelvis, width behind acetabular cavity 92 " 78-86 "
Habitat: King Island, Bass Strait. Now extinct.
INDEX. PAGE Aechmorhynchus, 119 Aepyornis, 223 Aepyornithidae, 221 Aestrelata, 157 agilis (Mullerornis), 232 alba (Notornis), 144 alba (Porphyrio), 143 albicilla (Clitonyx), XI albifacies (Sceloglaux), XI albifrons (Miro), XI Alca, 153 Alectroenas, 163 Alopochen, X alphonsi (Astur), 83 altus (Dinornis), 192 Amazona, 57 americana (Meleagris), XII americanus (Siphonorhis), 43 Anas, 103 angustipluma (Chaetoptila), 29 anna (Ciridops), 41 Anomalopteryx, 201 antiquus (Anomalopteryx), 202 antipodum (Palaeocorax), 1 Aphanapteryx, 131 apicalis (Moho), 27 Apterornis, 145 Aptornis, 147 Ara, 51 Ardea, 111 Astur, 83 ater (Dromaeus), 235 Athene, 75 aucklandica (Nesonetta), XI augusta (Amazona), XII australis (Mergus), XI australis (Miro), XI