ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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From a photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn. 
THE GIANT MOA, RESTORED 
E MUST confess to a strong liking for 
good restorations of particularly interest- 
ing mammals and birds of the past. The 
image of the colossal restoration of the Siberian 
mammoth that was at Ward’s Natural Science 
Establishment in 1876 should be fresh in the 
memories of at least half a million of the visitors 
to the Chicago Exposition. 
And now another Wardian restoration appears 
in the form of a life-size moa of New Zealand, 
executed by Rowland Ward, Ltd., of London, 
for the museum of Lord Rothschild at Tring. 
The height of the restoration has not been stated, 
but it is safe to assume, from the diminutive pro- 
portions of an apteryx shown on the same scale, 
that it is not far from nine feet! Although 
some of the moa species were small, the giants 
of the Family attained a height of eleven feet. 
The moas were cousins of the apteryx, or kiwi, 
and in size far surpassed the largest ostriches of 
today. Their extinction is not to be laid at the 
door of civilized man, for they were dead and 
gone long before white men occupied New Zea- 
land. However, their remains in bones, eggs, 
feathers and other items brought them down to 
a comparatively recent date, and supplied much 
good material to zoological museums. It is de- 
clared by Rowland Ward that the beak, feet and 
legs of their restoration are actual casts from 
original remains. 
In addition to the specimen executed for the 
Tring Museum, another was produced for the 
British Museum of Natural History at South 
Kensington. 
The feathers of the restoration seem to have 
come from the emu, which closely resemble the 
shaggy coat of the apteryx. On the whole, the 
restoration seems to us quite an acceptable rep- 
resentation of the living bird as it “might have 
been seen” several hundred years ago. W. T. H. 
OUR EDUCATIONAL SIDE AS OTHERS 
SEE IT 
Editorial Special Chicago Tribune, May 9, 1920. 
By Eye Witness 
VER the Lincoln park cage of one of the 
finest specimens of tiger in captivity ap- 
pear the two words: 
Siberian Tiger 
That, and nothing more. 
Well, Siberia is a pretty big place—more than 
3,000 miles across—and the two-word label 
