Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand.
Imperfect skeleton in Tring Museum.
EMEUS BOOTHI NOM. NOV.
Emeus, Species Α, Parker, Trans. Zool. Soc. XIII, p. 379 (1895), pl. XVI.
Easily distinguished by the shorter and narrower beak. Type specimen—the skull found by Mr. R. S. Booth at Stag Point—now in Otago University Museum, figured as above.
Habitat: Middle Island, New Zealand.
EMEUS GRAVIPES LYD.
Emeus gravipes Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 298 (1891) Nos. A95, on p. 299, to 47444d, on p. 300.
Dinornis gravis (portion) Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. VIII, p. 361 (1872).
Euryapteryx gravis Haast, Ibis 1874, p. 213.
The present species is smaller than E. crassus and has the tarso-metatarsus relatively wider. Length, 198 mm. = 7.8 inches; width at middle of shaft, 51 mm. = 2 inches.