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INTRODUCTION TO ZOOLOGY. 



" One might almost be disposed," says Professor Owen, "to 

 regard New Zealand as one end of a mighty wave of the 

 unstable and ever-shifting crust of the earth, of which the 

 opposite end, after having been long submerged, has again 

 risen with its accumulated deposits in North America, showing 

 us, in the Connecticut sandstones, the foot-prints of the 

 gigantic birds which trod its surface before it sank; and to 

 surmise that the intermediate body of the land-wave, along 

 which the Dinornis may have travelled to New Zealand, has 

 progressively subsided, and now lies beneath the Pacific 

 Ocean."* 



Fig. 285. D 



* Memoir on Dinornis, part 4, vol. iii. p. 328. 



f This outline is copied, with the kind permission of Professor Ansted, 

 from his Picturesque Sketches of Creation; a highly attractive and 

 interesting volume. VAN VOORST. 



