PACHYORNIS COMPACTA (HUTT.)

_Euryapteryx compacta_ Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXV, p. 11 (1893).

Approaches nearest to _pygmaeus_ in size, but can be at once distinguished

by the distal extremity of the tibio-tarsus not being expanded inwards. The

tarso-metatarsus has the trochleae considerably more expanded than in

_pygmaeus_.

Type from Enfield in New Zealand.

Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand.

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