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to whose personal exertions the Province of Canterhury is largely indebted, not only for the 

 establishment of a valuable museum of science and art, but for several most important topo- 

 graphical and geological surveys. 



There is no proof whatever that the bird here described is the same as that for which 

 M. Jules Verreaux proposed the name of Apteryx maxima^; on the contrary, the evidence, so 

 far as it goes, would seem to indicate the existence of a much larger species of Kiwi than 

 any of the foregoing— in fact, a bird equalling in size a full-grown Turkey. For this reason, 

 1 have considered it safer to retain Apteryx liaasti as a recognized species, and to leave the 

 further elucidation of the question to the zeal and enterprise of future explorers in the "land of 

 the A'pteryxy 



Bp. Compt. Eend. Acad. Sc. xliii. p. 841 (1856, ex Verr. MS.). 



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