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k atter of fact, it has never left New Zealand and is now in the Otago Museum. This woodcut 
enabl ^ 6aie ^ 01 i?i n ally in ‘La Nature’; and by the courtesy of the editor of that journal I am 
to lepioduce it here. Some excellent anatomical notes on this foot, by Dr. Cough trey, were 
hed in the Iransactions of the New-Zealand Institute’ (vol. vii. p. 269). 
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"° )eais later Mr. Taylor White discovered in some caves in the Wakatipu district (South 
Moa-feathers of two very distinct types. Some of these feathers are now in my possession ; 
botl aie 111 a State P reserv ation, the colours being perfectly fresh, and many of them have 
■i shafts quite entire. The largest of them measures nearly inches in length, and is of a uniform 
single W ^ te ’ on ty feather of this kind out of more than a hundred collected. It is 
^ a e > there being no sign whatever of the former attachment of an accessory plume; the barbs 
shaf^ lei d ! htant ’ Unconnected ’ and filamentary or hair-like, and are placed at such an angle with the 
^ aS a max imum breadth of about an inch and a half in the middle portion of the feather, 
k . ^rminishing towards the tip and tapering downwards almost to the base of the tube, there 
ti \ 110 ^ art *' f his unique feather is evidently a dorsal one, and probably helped to form 
° Se ul0 P) S ia l fringe or lower mantle in one of the smaller species of Moa. Another feather 
S m o to Lie same bird, and measuring nearly five inches in length, is of a similar filamentary 
^ tC1 ’ * s bnnished with an accessory plume only -25 of an inch shorter than the main one ; 
There ^ ai ^ brown with black margins, and the latter of a uniform brownish-yellow colour, 
in whi h Sma ^ C1 ^ ea ^bers, all of them single-shafted, with more distant, rigid, and shortened barbs, 
their 1 ^ a transparent yellow colour, like polished amber. These, I should infer from 
ai 'e do bl > C ^ Gl5 aiG ^ rom nec k °f the bird. The rest of the feathers in this group, some of which 
G shafted ’ are deeply webbed with silvery-brown down for about two thirds of their basal 
on e, as it represen ^ ea ^ er a PP eare ^ in tlie Trans. N.-Z. Institute (vol. xviii. pi. ii.) ; but the figure is a misleading 
e barbs thickly furnished with barbules, whereas in the feather itself they do not exist at all. 
