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literature,, about the Moos, but, unfortunately, the best 

 of it if not ahcaj/s accessible, being contained in the 

 " N'ezo Zealand Joiirnal of Science " and the " Transac- 

 tions of the Neio Zealand Institute.'''' The volume of 

 ^^Transactions'''' for 1893, being vol. ocxvi., contains a 

 very full list of articles 7-elating to the Moas, compiled 

 by Mr. A. Ham'dton ; it ivill be found to commence on 

 page 229. There is a good article on Moa in Neivton''s 

 " Dictionnry (f liirds,'''' a book that should be in every 

 library. 



Fig. 32. — The Three Giants, Phororhacos, Moa, Ostrich. 



