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quite entire. The largest of them measures nearly 6^ inches 
in length, and is of a uniform pale yellowish white, being the 
only feather of this kind out of more than a hundred col¬ 
lected. It is single-shafted, there being no sign whatever of 
the former attachment of an accessory plume; the barbs 
are rather distant, unconnected, and filamentary or hair-like, 
and are placed at such an angle with the shaft as to give a 
maximum breadth of about an inch and a half in the middle 
portion of the feather, the width diminishing towards the tip 
and tapering downwards almost to the base of the tube, there 
being no downy part. This unique feather is evidently a 
dorsal one, and probably helped to form the loose uropygial 
fringe or lower mantle in one of the smaller species of Moa. 
Another feather belonging to the same bird, and measuring 
nearly five inches in length, is of a similar filamentary cha¬ 
racter, but is furnished with an accessory plume only -25 of 
an inch shorter than the main one; the former being dark 
brown with black margins, and the latter of a uniform 
brownish-yellow colour. There are smaller feathers, all of 
them single-shafted, with more distant, rigid, and shortened 
barbs, in which the shaft is of a transparent yellow colour, 
like polished amber. These, I should infer from their 
character, are from the neck of the bird. The rest of the 
feathers in this group, some of which are double-shafted, are 
deeply webbed with silvery-brown down for about two thirds 
of their basal extent, reddish brown in their apical portion, 
with whitish tips. It is probable that all these feathers 
belonged to Dinornis casuarinus, bones of which species were 
found in association with them in the Wakatipu cave, 
together with fragments of egg-shell of a pale green colour. 
The feathers from the Queenstown cave are of an entirely 
different type, and these may perhaps have belonged to 
Dinornis didinus. They measure from four to five inches in 
length ; from the base for more than two thirds of their 
extent thev have thick downy webs, of a uniform width of 
