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In giving the species a name, Mr. Potts has paid a well-merited compliment to Dr. Haast, 

 to whose personal exertions the Province of Canterbury 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, 

 I have considered it safer to retain Apteryx haasti 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 Apteryx.'" 



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



