HuTTON AND CouGHTREY. — On the EaiiiscUugh Cave. 141 



the Lones tliat lie obtained have been deposited in the Otago Museum, 

 together with all the more valuable Moa remains from the cave, which have 

 been most liberally presented by Dr. A. T. Thomson. 



Notes on the Anatomy of the Moa Remains found at Earnscleugh Cave, 



Alexandra. By Millen Coughtrey. 



{To accompany Captain Hutton^s Notes.) 



The remains with which I am specially called upon to deal are — a, Moa's neck 



and skin ; h, right femur and muscles ; c, left fibula j d, left tibio-tarsus. 



(a) Moa's Neck. 



An excellent description of this specimen is given by Dr. Hector in the 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 115, to which I wish to add a few notes. 



In that paper, fig. «, jdI. 5, exhibits clearly the general characters and 

 the form of the portion of the integument preserved. 



The conical papillae of the dermis vary in size and the distances of their 

 approximations to one another. 



Those on the dorsal and upper aspect of the neck, allowing for the wrink- 

 ling of the skin, are much closer together and smaller in size than those of the 

 ventral surface and lower part of the specimen ; the upper ones being 0*15 to 

 0*10 inches apart, the lower and ventral ones 0-2 inches apart. 



Allowing for the due and consequent contraction of the skin from age and 

 drying, we must regard the Moa as having possessed not a very thick coat of 

 feathers. 



The bifurcate calamus, showing the secondary after-shaft in the Moa's 

 feathers, as depicted in fig. 2, pi. 5, loc. cit., is very well seen in all the feathers 

 of ventral surface of preparation, but this character is not so common to those 

 of dorsal surface. 



The soft parts still attached to the six cervical vertebrae are respectively — 



1. Portions of the supra- and inter-spinous ligaments of four lower cervical 

 vertebrae.* 



2. Intervertebral ligaments and cartilages for the central and zygapophy- 

 sial joints. Anterior common and capsular ligaments well seen. 



3. The left moiety of deep cervical fascia. 



4. On the outer surface of this fascia, and on the under surfac3 of the skin, 

 also in the interspaces between and around the transverse processes, are the 

 remains of vascular tissue. 



5. So far as it is possible to make out the following are the muscular 

 attachments still remainins:: — 



*' This is almost identical with Dr. Hector's description, plus the names of th3 parts 

 left. 



