FRAME OF MOA-FEATHERS, 
On pages 7-13 of this ( Guide ’ will be found illustrations of 
several colossal species of Dinornis formerly inhabiting New 
by their fossil remains„ 
In connection therewith the frame of Moa-feathers which 
forms part of the Manor-House Collection is of special 
interest. 
These feathers are a portion of the unique collection 
exhibited by Mr. Taylor White at the Colonial and Indian 
Exhibition, 1886. They were discovered by him in 1874, 
in a cave at Queenstown, in the provincial district of Otago, 
N.Z., and were first recorded by him in the ‘ Transactions of 
the New-Zealand Institute/ vol. viii. p. 99. They are also 
mentioned in Sir Richard Owerr’s r Extinct Wingless Birds 
of New Zealand/ vol. i. p. 447. 
This valuable collection was dispersed at the close of the 
Exhibition. Some of the feathers were acquired by the 
British Museum, another lot went to the Cambridge 
Museum, and others into the hands of private purchasers. 
Sir Walter Buller thus refers to them in the Introduction 
to his second edition of c The Birds of New Zealand'’ (vol. i. 
p. xxxi) : — a Some of these feathers are now in my posses¬ 
sion ; they are in a high state of preservation, the colours 
beiii£ perfectly fresh, and many of them have both shafts 
Zealand and now known to us only 
