﻿Haast. — Moas and Moa Htmters. 97 



extremities sliarply broken off, as if for the extraction of the marrow, but 

 only one of them appeared as if it had afterwards been gnawed by a dog. 



It will thus be seen that polished Maori stone implements occur all over 

 the extent of the land, and as I had occasion to convince myself, also in the 

 neighbouring fields, in which no sign of moa-hunter encampments exist ; but 

 in no instance were polished stone implements found in the kitchen-middens of 

 the moa-hunters, of which I examined carefully a great many, they invariably 

 maintaining the same characteristic features. 



A further examination of the kitchen-middens of the moa-hunters confirmed 

 fully the statement made in my fii-st report, concerning the relative proportion 

 in the occurx-ence of the bones of the different Dinornis species, the remains of 

 Dinornis casuarinus still continuing to be the most numerous, and next those 

 of Dinornis didiformis and crassus. A few more specimens of Dino7'nis 

 elephantopus were also obtained, but no more of D. ingens, and none of the 

 largest species, D. robicstus and giganteus, so that I cannot add any new 

 information on this head. 



The hollow space in one of the cooking places towards the central position 

 of the encampment had been filled up with masses of broken moa bones, as 

 this, as before observed, is not unusual ; but this spot gained additional interest 

 from finding that nearly two complete necks had been thrown on the heaps, so 

 that, when we exposed the bones to view, we observed the vertebrce, and the 

 rings of the larynx along theur, still in their natural position. One of these 

 necks, which were lying one across the other near the bottom of the old oven, 

 belonged to Dinornis casuarinus, and the other to D. didiformis ; the skulls 

 belonging to them were also present, and had been scooped out in the usual 

 manner. In examining and collecting carefully the contents of this oven, I 

 found the broken leg-bones, portions of pelvis, sternum, also phalanges, ribs, 

 intercostals, and even some of the tympanic bones belonging to these two 

 specimens on one heap together, with a few chips of flint and a sandstone 

 knife. Thus we liad here the remnant of a meal before us for which two birds 

 of different species had at the same time been cooked. 



If we had had no other bones at our disposal, we could have constructed 

 from this refuse heap alone, two species of the extinct Dinornithes. I also 

 examined again fragment after fragment, bo see if I could not trace by gnawed 

 pieces the co-existence of a domesticated dog, but in vain ; even the smallest 

 bones being quite intact, and the bigger ones, which were broken, showing 

 invariably the original fractures, sharply defined. 



I may also allude here to the curious fact that I never obtained any 

 scapulo-co7'acoid bone, which, judging from the existence of this bone in the 

 skeletons of the larger species, the smaller ones ought also to have possessed. 

 However, the Glenmai'k Swamp in this respect never yielded a single 



