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To i-etnni ; — they observed him for near an hour, ere he retired, and were 

 glad enough at last to make their escape from witnessing a meal, where, 

 like him of old, instead of eating, they were all but eaten ! They described 

 this animal as being about fourteen or sixteen feet in height. 



The bones from which the annexed drawings* [PL IT . and F.] were made, 

 were all found at Turanga, Poverty Bay. They comprise a tihia, a femur, a 

 tarsus, and a fragment of a j^elvis and dorsal vertebra, of a Moa. They are very 

 stout, are deeply marked with muscular impressions, and are in a good state 

 of preservation. 1. The tibia, which is nearly perfect, measures thirty inches 

 in length, and in girth, at the largest end (where it was much broken away at 

 the edges of the processes, and consequently reduced in size), sixteen and a 

 half inches ; at the smallest end twelve and a half inches, and in the smallest 

 part, near the middle of the bone, five and a quarter inches. There are not 

 any remains of a fibula, however rudimentary, attached to the tibia, nor is 

 there any apparent mark of attachment to indicate that such formerly 

 adhered thereto. The largest tibia yet found, in nearly a perfect state, 

 measured four inches more m length than this.f 2. The femur, which also 

 is nearly perfect, measm-es in length thirteen inches ; in girth, at the one 

 end over the head of the femur, eleven and a quarter inches ; at the thickest 

 end twelve and a half inches ; and in the smallest part five and a half 

 inches : the reticulated muscular impressions on this bone are very nume- 

 rous and well defined. I have seen a portion of a femur, the small part 

 of which measured in gu-th eight inches. The one, however, from which 

 the drawing was taken, though not so large, was more perfect ; and it was 

 in consequence of its being so that it was selected for the purpose. 3. The 

 tarsus (a small one), nearly perfect, measm-es in length ten inches, and in 

 girth at one end nine inches, and at the opposite end eight inches, and in the 

 smallest part four inches ; this bone is comparatively very short and flat, and 

 has articulations for only three toes. 4. The portion of the bone of tJie back 

 and pelvis is not so perfect, being a very much-broken fi'agment, comprising 

 fi'om the upper and outer edge of the acetabulum to the lower joint of the dorsal 

 vertebra, in which the canal for the medulla sinnalis is perfect. This bone, or 

 rather fragment, measm-es, from the outer edge of the articulation of the head 

 of the osfemoris to the outer broken edge of the bone (which is that portion 

 approaching towards the upper part of the bone of the pelvis), eleven inches; 

 and across the inner and smallest part of the bone, immediately beneath the 



* Dra-wings of these bones were sent to the Tasmanian Society, and published with 

 the original monograph in their Journal. 



t I much regret that I had not an opportunity of inspecting the largest and most 

 perfect bones ere they were sent to England. A vessel sailing fi-om Turanga for Port 

 Nicholson, by which opportunity they were sent, was the reason of my not seeing them. 



