PROFESSOR OWEN ON THE GENUS DINORNIS. 271 



ADDENDUM. 



J. R. Gowen, Esq., a Director of the New Zealand Company, has obh'gingly forwarded 

 to me the subjoined indication of a further discovery of the bones of the Dinornis, from 

 a new locality in New Zealand : — 



" Extract of a letter from Colonel William Wakefield to J. R. Gowen, Esq., dated 



Wellington, 1 9th September, 1843. 

 " I received lately your letter respecting the Moa, with Professor Owen's notice. I 

 have taken steps to procure some of the bones, which are much larger than the one 

 represented in the sketch. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Wanganui, has a large collection 

 of these bones, found in a river between that place and New Plymouth. I have heard 

 several stories of live Moas having been seen ; one, that the enormous size (higher than 

 our one-storied houses) frightened the person, an Englishman, who was going to shoot 

 It ; but I don't believe any one has seen a live one lately. I intend to make further in- 

 quiries amongst the old natives, and send you all I can collect of bones." 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 



PLATE XVIII. 



Cervical vertebrae, natural size. 

 Fig. 1. Front view of a middle cervical vertebra of the Dinornis giganteus. 



2. Side view of the same, showing the posterior articular process and the outline 



of the right inferior tuberosity, restored, at h. 



3. Base view of the same ; h h, the fractured inferior tuberosities. 



4. Side view of an inferior cervical vertebra of a smaller species of Dinornis 



(Din. struthoides?) -. the antero-posterior extent of the single inferior spine 

 is indicated at h. 



5. Upper view of the same vertebra. 



6. Front view of the same vertebra. 



7. Side view of a corresponding cervical vertebra of another species of Dinornis, 



of equal size with the preceding : the antero-posterior extent of the inferior 

 spinous process is indicated at h. 



8. Upper view of the same \'ertebra. 



9. Front view of the same vertebra. 



10. Upper view of the thirteenth cervical vertebra of the Apteryx australU. 



