MULLERORNIS BETSILEI MILNE-EDW. & GRAND.

_Mullerornis betsilei_ Milne-Edwards and Grandidier, Compt. Rend.,

CXVIII, p. 125 (1894).

Original description as follows:--"The leg bones are slender, the

tarso-metatarsus is not enlarged as in the preceding genus, and the section

through the shaft shows almost an isosceles triangle. The bone itself

having more the proportion of _Dromaius_.

"Length of tibio-tarsus 390 mm.

Circumference of tibio-tarsus 90 "

Width of tibio-tarsus 30 "

Width of proximal end 75 "

Width of distal end 60 "

Length of tarso-metatarsus 310 "

Circumference of tarso-metatarsus 80 "

Width of shaft of tarso-metatarsus 27 "

Width of proximal end 70 "

"_Mullerornis betsilei_ inhabited the same area as _Ae. mulleri_ but was

much rarer. (Translated.)"

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