discovered in New Zealand. 
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To return;—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 de¬ 
scribed this animal as being about 14 or 16 feet in 
height. 
The bones from which the annexed drawings were 
made were all found at Turanga (Poverty Bay). They 
comprise a tibia, a femur, a tarsus , and a fragment of a 
pelvis and dorsal vertebrae 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 30 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), 16J inches, at the smallest end 12J 
inches, and in the smallest part, near the middle of the 
bone, 5J 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 4 inches more in 
length than this.* 2. The femur , which also is nearly 
“ Then, when along the crooked shore we hear 
Their clatt’ring wings, and saw the foes appear, 
Misenus sounds a charge : we take th J alarm, 
And our strong hands with swords and bucklers arm. 
In this new kind of combat, all employ 
Their utmost force the monsters to destroy. — 
In vain:—the fated skin is proof to wounds; 
And from their plumes the shining sword rebounds.” 
Book iii. 311. 
* I much regret that I had not an opportunity of inspecting the 
largest and most perfect bones* ere they were sent to England, A 
