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islands of New Zealand where attention to such 

 evidences was likely to be attracted. 



'The confirmatory response, anxiously expected 



DINORNIS (PACHYORNIS) ELEPHANTOPUS, OWEN 



Side view of a skeleton of the Elephant-footed Moa, from New Zealand, 

 restored by Owen. About ^ natural size. 



through the years 1840, 1841, and 1842, at length 

 arrived, in a letter from the Rev. William 

 Cotton, M.A., in one from Colonel Wakefield, 

 and in some collections of bones transmitted by 



