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Art. [V.—Notes on Moa Remains in the vicinity of Cape Campbell, 
By C. H. Rosson, Chief Lighthouse-Keeper. 
(Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 12th February, 1876.} 
Plate IV. 
Previous to my arrival at Cape Campbell in March, 1872, to take charge of 
the light station on the Cape, which forms the northern extremity of the 
Flaxbourne sheep run, the property of Sir Charles Clifford, formerly 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mr. F. A. Weld, now 
Governor of Tasmania, I had heard nothing of Moa bones having been 
found near it, but soon after, having occasion to visit Flaxbourne on 
business, I was there shewn part of the tibia of a large Moa. Upon asking 
one of the shepherds where it came from, he told me that it had been 
found on the run, and that he had seen other bones which, from his des- 
cription, must have been tarsi, and this was all the information which I 
was able to obtain respecting them, then or at any subsequent time ; and 
seeing that the Flaxbourne run extends south from Cape Campbell about 
20 miles, with an average breadth of four miles or more, it was, to say the 
least, a little vague. It served, however, to direct my attention to the fact 
that this part of New Zealand had, at one time, been frequented by the 
Moa, and to set me on the look-out for its remains. In the winter of 1873, 
after a heavy fall of rain, one of my sons found, on his way home from 
Flaxbourne, at the mouth of a stream some five miles from here, our first 
Moa bone—a right tarsus, which had evidently been carried down by a 
freshet, which had taken it nearly to high water mark on the beach. 
Thinking it probable that more bones would be found higher up the 
stream, we made a careful examination both of its bed and banks, from 
the beach to its source, but without finding any more bones, except a small 
portion of the distal end of a tibia, much decayed; and I think it most 
probable that the remainder of the skeleton has been washed away by 
degrees, and either taken into the sea, or buried in the shingle on the 
beach. On the sketch map (Plate IV.) which illustrates this paper, the stream 
in question is marked 1. Upon making an examination of the bone above- 
mentioned, I saw that it had been in a fire of some kind, and the thought 
struck me that it might have been cooked by the ancient Moa-hunters, so 
We explored the vicinity of the stream for traces of them, and on a bank to 
the south of it found some old ovens, which I at first thought might have 
been used by the Moa-hunters ; but a careful examination soon convinced 
me that the place had been used as a camping-ground by the Maoris on 
their journeys up and down the coast, or when they came to catch eels in 
the stream, and that, instead of being Moa-hunters, they were fish eaters 
and cannibals. The ovens contained, besides ashes and charcoal, shells, 
