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bed dry, exposing a number of trees, many of them being of large size. At 
various points, both in the dry bed of the lake, from which I send shells, 
and beyond its limits close to the hills, I have found Moa bones, the greater 
number in an advanced state of decomposition. At 4 and 5 were found 
parts of a foot with toe bones and a small tarsus, all of which I forward 
with this paper, and have marked them all with numbers to correspond, 
with those which indicate on the map the places where they were found. 
So far as I have been able to discover, without making any very extended 
search, the Moa-hunters do not seem to have inhabited this part of the 
coast, or if they did, they were probably Maoris, such as now inhabit New 
Zealand, all the stone axes, etc., which I have found near their ovens and 
camping-places being similar to those in use amongst them up to the time 
when they became acquainted with the use of iron tools. No doubt there 
have been plenty of Moas about here at some time, but whether they lived 
here at the same time as the Maoris does not seem clear. I am, however, 
unable to agree with Mr. Booth and Dr. Haast in thinking that they have 
been extinct for thousands or even for hundreds of years; and I would 
direct particular attention to the state of preservation in which the tarsi, 
which accompany this paper, have been found. They were all obtained on 
the surface, exposed to wind and sun and rain, and would long ago have 
turned to dust had the date of the bird’s extinction been so remote. I 
think Mr. Booth is right enough in saying that we know just three things 
about the Moa, namely, that it has lived in New Zealand, that it does not 
live in it now, and that it could not live in it now. 
Arr. V.—Notes on Moa Caves, etc., in the Wakatipu District. 
By Tavtor Wurrs, Ese. (communicated by Captain Hurtoy). 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 24th August, 1875.) 
Cave near Mount Nicholas. 
Turs cave is situated on the south side of Lake Wakatipu, two miles east 
of the Von River, in a small conical hill about a quarter-of-a-mile from the 
Lake. There is a tolerably steep rise, covered with long fern, to the 
entrance of the cave, which is in the overhanging face of a mica schist 
rock. 
The entrance is about sixteen feet high, and ten feet broad, from which 
it narrows, both in height and width, to five feet. The top meeting the 
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