PACHYORNIS VALGUS (HUTT.)

_Euryapteryx valgus_ Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXV, p. 12 (1893).

This species is at once distinguishable from all others by the

extraordinary internal expansion of the distal end of the tibio-tarsus. The

tarso-metatarsus is 8.5 inches = 216 mm. in length and the proximal width

3.5 inches = 89 mm., and does not differ much from _crassus_ except in the

great proximal width, necessary to articulate with the distal internal

expansion described above.

The type came from Enfield in New Zealand.

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