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payable deposit being found, although it is quite possible that a notable 
amount of coal may occur. These beds apparently occupy the same 
stratigraphic-al position as the coal-measures in Broken River and in the 
Trelissick Basin—that is, they are of Cretaceous age. 
In concluding this paper I have to express my thanks for much sub¬ 
stantial assistance received from Mr. F. Redpath, the secretary, and from 
Mr. Walter Leitch, engineer, of the Mount Torlesse Coal Company ; and 
from Professor Arnold Wall and Dr. W. P. Evans, who gave ready help 
on many occasions. I am specially indebted to the latter for allowing 
me to publish the results of the analysis of samples of coal collected by 
me in the mine. If, as the result of further mining operations, additional 
details of geological importance are forthcoming I shall furnish a further 
report dealing with them. 
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MOA-BONES FROM MARTINBOROUGH. 
Some four years ago a cave containing moa and other bird bones was 
found by Mr. Walter Harrison on a limestone ridge near the station of 
Mr. Murdoch McLeod, Haurangi. The Dominion Museum authorities 
were notified of the find, and a quantity of interesting bones were 
forwarded by Mr. Harrison. 
In March of this year the cave or fissure was excavated and some 
thousands of bones were brought to light. Some thirty moas must have 
perished in this cave, together with many Aptornis, Notornis', kiwi, kakapo, 
duck, and weka. 
Of the moas one very large species represented was Dinornis maximus, 
while the majority of bones belonged to the smaller Anomalopteryx 
didiformis. Most importance, however, was attached to the recovery 
of a large series of bones of Aptornis otidiformis, the smaller North Island 
form of Aptornis. This is the first record of any large series of the bones 
of this bird being found. Likewise with Notornis, great numbers of 
important bones were found that will be invaluable for purposes of 
comparative study. Of interest to the student of regional distribution 
was the finding of the bones of the huia, the crow, and the tuatara lizard. 
One bone still remains to be definitely identified, but there is every reason 
to believe it to be the lower mandible of the rufous owl, Sceloglaux 
rufifacies. 
The presence of dog-bones was at first thought to be indicative of the 
contemporaneous association of the moa and Maori dog, but definite proof 
was lacking when the final excavations were made. 
