70 Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 
To return ;—they observed him for near an hour, ere he retired, and were 
glad enough at last to make their escape from witnessing a meal, where, 
like him of old, instead of eating, they were all but eaten! They described 
this animal as being about fourteen or sixteen feet in height. 
The bones from which the annexed drawings* [Pl. IV. and V.] were made, 
were all found at Turanga, Poverty Bay. They comprise a tibia, a femur, a 
tarsus, and a fragment of a pelvis and dorsal vertebra of a Moa. They are very 
stout, are deeply marked with muscular impressions, and are in a good state 
of preservation. 1. The tibia, which is nearly perfect, measures thirty inches 
in length, and in girth, at the largest end (where it was much broken away at 
the edges of the processes, and consequently reduced in size), sixteen and a 
half inches; at the smallest end twelve and a half inches, and in the smallest 
part, near the middle of the bone, five and a quarter inches. There are not 
any remains of a fibula, however rudimentary, attached to the tibia, nor is ~ 
there any apparent mark of attachment to indicate that such formerly 
adhered thereto. The largest tibia yet found, in nearly a perfect state, 
measured four inches more in length than this.+ 2. The femur, which also . 
is nearly perfect, measures in length thirteen inches; in girth, at the one 
end over the head of the femur, eleven and a quarter inches; at the thickest 
end twelve and a half inches; and in the smallest part five and a half 
inches: the reticulated muscular impressions on this bone are very nume- 
rous and well defined. I have seen a portion of a femur, the small part 
of which measured in girth eight inches. The one, however, from which 
the drawing was taken, though not so large, was more perfect; and it was 
in consequence of its being so that it was selected for the purpose. 3. The 
tarsus (a small one), nearly perfect, measures in length ten inches, and in 
girth at one end nine inches, and at the opposite end eight inches, and in the 
smallest part four inches; this bone is comparatively very short and flat, and 
has articulations for only three toes. 4. The portion of the bone of the back 
and pelvis is not so perfect, being a very much-broken fragment, comprising 
from the upper and outer edge of the acetabulum to the lower joint of the dorsal 
vertebra, in which the canal for the medulla spinalis is perfect. This bone, or 
rather fragment, measures, from the outer edge of the articulation of the head 
of the os femoris to the outer broken edge of the bone (which is that portion 
approaching towards the upper part of the bone of the pelvis), eleven inches; 
and across the inner and smallest part of the bone, immediately beneath the 
* Drawings of these bones were sent to the Tasmanian Society, and published with 
the original monograph in their Journal. 
f I much regret that I had not an opportunity of inspecting the largest and most 
perfect bones ere they were sent to England. A vessel sailing from Turanga for Port 
Nicholson, by which opportunity they were sent, was the reason of my not seeing them, 
