130 Charles Smith — Moa Bones in New Zealand. 



They are often in and around native ovens and frequently mixed 

 with fragments of egg shells. 



Some buiies were found about the sides of Evans' and Lyall's Bays, 

 Wellington Harbour. 



On the East Coast. 



A few bones have been found in the North between Ngunguru 

 and Whangarei Heads ; the exact place is an indentation of the coast 

 between Pataua and Kowhaitaki Creek, on the sand hills. 



Also on the coast opposite the Island of Kawau. 



A few bones have (I think) been found at Tauranga. 



A few bones have been found in Poverty Bay. 



A few in Hawkes Bay, scattered and broken. They are generally 

 near the mouths of rivers. 



South Island (beginning at the North). 



Bones have been found in some large Limestone Caves near 

 Collingwood. 



Also, near Cape Campbell, about four or five miles to the north- 

 west between the sea and a lagoon. 



Again about five miles to the south of the Cape near the mouth of 

 a creek. 



A nearly perfect egg was found at the Kaikora Peninsula buried 

 with a human body. 



Very large deposits of loose bones were found near Montunau in 

 clay, gravel and peat, mostly Dhiornis elephantopus, a few of D. 

 casuariniis and D. didiformis. 



Another large deposit (distinct from the last, I think) was found 

 at Glenmark, near the mouth of the Waipara. 



Large deposits were found at Moa-bone Point Cave near Sumner, 

 N. of Banks' Peninsula. The cave was cut into in making a road 

 from Christchurch to Sumner. Also near the same place, at the 

 head of the Avon and Heathcote estuary, with fragments of shells, 

 the bones belong principally to D. robustus. 



Bones have also been discovered in the Malvern Hills 



Also at the mouth of the Eakaia ; and between Lake Ellesmere 

 and the sea fragments of bones are very numerous, but no shells. 



All over the Canterbury and Otago Plains bones were found by 

 the earliest settlers, scattered over the surface, and easily seen after 

 fires ; many of them belonged to Dinornis crassus. 



Some bones were found on the banks of the river below Lake 

 Tekapo. 



An egg was found near Oamaru. 



On a sand spit at the mouth of the Shag Eiver, which confines the 

 stream to near the north bank, Moa bones were found in large 

 quantities ; some of the ovens in which some of the fragments were 

 found were below the level of the present high-water mark. The 

 bones belonged principally to Palapteryx crassus, Eiu-yapterijx rheides, 

 and Palapteryx elephantopus, and some to Dinornis robustus. 



Some bones were found at Island Point, Waikouaiti. 



A very perfect skeleton of Dinornis robustus was discovered with 



