28 j THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
The Kiwi is more interesting to us because of its resemblance 
to the gigantic Moa, of which so much has been written in New 
Zealand and in England. 
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THE KIWI. 
THE MOA. 
There were in earlier days no less than twenty different species 
of the Moa. How and when they became extinct cannot be satis- 
factorily settled. That they have been extinct at least 150 years is 
argued from the fact that no Maori, however aged, can be found 
who ever saw a Moa, nor can there be found a Maori who can tell 
us that he ever heard his father say that he had seen one. 
The classification made by scientists has been entirely from 
bones discovered in different parts of New Zealand. Some of the 
scientific names applied to different species show the enormous size 
of at least a few of them. 
Dinornis altus. 
Dinornis elephantus. 
Dinornis giganteus. 
Dinornis ingens. 
Dinornis maximus. 
