108 Transactions.— Miscellaneous, 
care and the requisite scientific knowledge (having determined the struthious 
affinities of the birds to which the bones belonged, and pointed out their 
remarkable characters, ere any intelligence could have reached him of the 
result of Professor Owen’s examination of the specimens transmitted to 
this country), has given, in his masterly paper before quoted, very cogent 
reasons for the belief that none of the true Moas exist, though it is probable 
the last of the race were exterminated by the early inhabitants of these 
islands." (Loc. cit., p. 235.) 
ADDENDUM, 
Narr, October 24, 1879. I was very much surprised this morning, on 
finding (and that by the merest chance, in looking into the ** Index, Vols. 
I.-VIII.") that Mr. Stack, of Canterbury, New Zealand, had some time 
ago written a short paper containing those passages from Sir G. Grey’s 
‘Poetry of the New Zealanders” which I have in this paper adduced 
respecting the Moa. I had never before this morning seen Mr. Stack’s 
paper ; no doubt this was owing to its being placed in the Appendix at the 
end of the volume,* and to its extreme brevity. However, had I earlier 
seen it, I could not have accepted his translation of those passsges referred. 
to, still less his remarks thereon. New Zealand poetry and legends cannot 
be rendered by any Maori scholar in the South Island; besides, their 
myths and legends are not now to be found there in their integrity ; 
indeed, such could not reasonably be expected among such a small remnant 
of Maoris living isolated among settlers. 
Art, VIL.— Contributions towards a better Knowledge of the Maori Race. 
By W. Cozzxwso, F.L.S. : 
[CONTINUED.l] 
[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 9th June, 1879.] 
—— “ For I, too, agree with Solon, that ‘I would fain grow old learning many things.’ ” 
—Puato: Laches. 
Ow THE [DEALITY or THE Ancient New ZEALANDER. 
Parr II.—Proverss ann Proversran Savines. 
I nave long believed that there is much truth in that compendious remark 
of Lord Bacon, viz., that ‘the genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are dis- 
covered by their proverbs.” It is in them, no doubt, that a philosophical 
mind will discover a great variety of curious knowledge, particularly when 
- * Trans. N. Z. Inst., Vol. VIL, Appendix, p. xxviii. 
t For Part I. see Vol. XL, Art. V., p. 77. 
