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the Continent, as to the very existence of such a bird !—though 
Lesson had himself when in the Bay of Islands in April 1824 
(Voy. ‘ Coquille, ut supra) heard of it ;? anda few years later Dumont 
d’Urville had seen its skin, which the naturalists of his expedition 
procured, worn as a tippet by a Maori chief at Tolaga Bay (Houa- 
houa),? and in 1830 gave what proves to be on the whole very 
accurate information concerning it (Voy. ‘Astrolabe, ii. p. 107). To 
put all suspicion at rest, Lord Derby sent his unique specimen for 
exhibition at a meeting of the Zoological Society, 12th February 
1833 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 24), and a few months later (fom. 
cit. p. 80) Yarrell communicated to that body a complete descrip- 
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NorRTHERN Kiwi, Apteryx mantelli. 
tion of it which was afterwards published in full with an excellent 
portrait (Trans. Zool. Soc. i. p. 71, pl. 10). Herein the systematic 
place of the species, as akin to the Struthious birds, was placed 
beyond cavil, and the author called upon all interested in zoology 
to aid in further research as to this singular form. In consequence 
of this appeal a legless skin was within two years sent to the 
Society (Proc. 1835, p. 61) obtained by Mr. W. Yate of Waimate, 
who said it was the second he had seen, and that he had kept the 
1 Cuvier in the second edition of his Regne Animal (1829) only referred to 
it in a footnote (i. p. 498). 
2 From what he says in his Voyage autour du Monde (ii. p. 348), not published 
till 1839, he evidently only knew the bird by Shaw’s description. 
3 Cruise in 1822 (Journ. Residence in New Zealand, p. 313) had spoken of an 
‘meu’ found in that island, which must of course have been an Apteryz. 
