NOTORNIS MANTELLI IN WESTERN OTAGO. 301 
the action of lateral lip-pads, the jaws moving horizontally instead 
of vertically. This indeed is the most curious 
point to be noted in the anatomy of the Manatee, a) 
and is well worthy of observation by naturalists f 
while the opportunity is still afforded of seeing \ e 
a living specimen. The annexed figure of the 3 
animal’s mouth, viewed from the front, was aed 
drawn while it was opening its lips to enclose pieces of lettuce. 

ON THE SURVIVAL OF NOTORNIST MANELLI IN 
WESTERN OTAGO.* 
By James Park, F.G.S. 
Up to the present time only three specimens of this remark- 
able bird have been secured, and, as the opinion has been 
expressed by some naturalists that it is now quite extinct, I have 
prepared the following notes, collected during the progress of 
various explorations in Otago, as tending to show that it not only 
exists, but is probably as numerous now as when the colony was 
first settled by Europeans. 
I may mention at the outset that the genus Notornis was 
founded by Professor Owen in the year 1848, upon portions of a 
skull and other parts of the skeleton of a large Rail discovered 
at Waingongoro by the Hon. Walter Mantell, while exploring at 
that place for Moa-bones. These fossils are all that now remain 
to testify the existence of the Notornis in the North Island, where 
it was known to the natives as the Moho. 
By a strange, and at the same time most fitting, coincidence, 
the first two specimens of the Notornis, or Takahe as it was 
called in the South Island, were secured by Mr. Mantell in 1849. 
The first of these was captured by a party of sealers at Duck 
Cove, Resolution Island, in Dusky Sound; and the second by the 
Maoris on Secretary Island, opposite to Deas Cove, in Thompson 
Sound. Both of these were forwarded to England, and are now 
in the British Museum in London. 
After a lapse of over thirty years the third specimen was 

* From the ‘ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,’ vol. xxi. (May, 
1889), pp. 226—230. 
