Haast.—On the Measurements of Dinornis Bones. 21 
Art. IL—0n the Measurements of Dinornis Bones, obtained from Excavations 
in a Swamp situated at Glenmark, on the Property of Messrs. Kermode 
and Co., up to 15th February, 1868. By Junius Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., 
Government Geologist, Canterbury, N.Z. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 28th July, 1868.] 
Tue locality in question, situate on the property of Messrs. Kermode 
and Co., north of the river Waipara, has long been celebrated for the great 
number of Moa bones found there, and which have been dug out of drainage 
channels cut in various directions through the swamp. The New Zealand 
partner, G. H. Moore, Esq., at my request, not only handed over all the 
bones in his possession to the Canterbury Museum, but allowed me, more- 
over, to make extensive excavations, the results of which exceeded my most 
sanguine expectations. Last October, when sending a collection of Moa 
bones to W. H. Flower, Esq. F.R.S., the Conservator of the Hunterian 
Museum, for exchange with the British Museum, I gave a list of the 
measurements of the different species of Dinornis and Palapteryx for publi- 
cation in England. Since then some more excavations have been undertaken 
for the Provincial Government of Canterbury; and as I consider that the 
exact measurements of the bones found will not be without interest to 
scientific societies in New Zealand, I have the honour to forward a copy 
of the list sent previously to England, after adding to it the results of the 
latest excavations made since that time. Next winter I hope to embody the 
results of my observations on Dinornis in a more extended paper, with a full 
description of the ground in which the bones were embedded, the probable 
causes through which the numerous specimens were destroyed, and to which 
they owe the preservation of their osseous remains. 
Before proceeding to the main subject of these notes, namely, to give the | 
measurements of the different species and their varieties, I wish ta state that 
it was on very few occasions only that I was able to obtain all the bones of 
a specimen lying together in situ, as in general a great quantity of the 
remains of different species were mixed together. In fact, as I shall show 
in some future notes, there were often twenty-five to thirty specimens so 
closely embedded and packed together that the whole formed one mass, 
rendering it impossible to separate the bones of each bird from the rest. 
Consequently I was compelled, with the active co-operation of my assistant, 
Mr. F. Fuller, to select, first, all the bones belonging to the same species, 
and afterwards to articulate each specimen from the whole material, a 
work which required much time, as the quantity of excavated bones was so 
great. 
