A MIDPLEISTOCENE RAIL FROM NEW-ZEALAND

Fossil bones of a new genus and species of rail (Aves: Rallidae) are d escribed from one million year old shoreline deposits near Marton, Nor th Island, New Zealand. Associated bones indicate the presence of a sp ecifically indeterminate rail, an indeterminate avian species, and a m oa (Aves: Dinomithiformes). These are the first described fossil terre strial carinates from deposits older than 100,000 years in New Zealand .