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ADDENDUM. 
J. R. Gowen, Esq., a Director of the New Zealand Company, has obligingly forwarded 
to me the subjoined indication of a further discovery of the bones of the Dinornis, from 
a new locality in New Zealand :— 
‘Extract of a letter from Colonel William Wakefield to J. R. Gowen, Esq., dated 
Wellington, 19th September, 1843. 
‘I received lately your letter respecting the Moa, with Professor Owen’s notice. I 
have taken steps to procure some of the bones, which are much larger than the one 
represented in the sketch. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Wanganui, has a large collection 
of these bones, found in a river between that place and New Plymouth. I have heard 
several stories of live Moas having been seen; one, that the enormous size (higher than 
our one-storied houses) frightened the person, an Englishman, who was going to shoot 
it ; but I don’t believe any one has seen a live one lately. I intend to make further in- 
quiries amongst the old natives, and send you all I can collect of bones.” 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE XVIII. 
Cervical vertebrz, natural size. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a middle cervical vertebra of the Dinornis giganteus. 
2. Side view of the same, showing the posterior articular process and the outline 
of the right inferior tuberosity, restored, at h. 
3. Base view of the same; A h, the fractured inferior tuberosities. 
4. Side view of an inferior cervical vertebra of a smaller species of Dinornis 
(Din. struthoides ?): the antero-posterior extent of the single inferior spine 
is indicated at h. 
5. Upper view of the same vertebra. 
6. Front view of the same vertebra. 
7. Side view of a corresponding cervical vertebra of another species of Dinornis, 
of equal size with the preceding: the antero-posterior extent of the inferior 
spinous process is indicated at h. 
8. Upper view of the same vertebra. 
9. Front view of the same vertebra. 
10. Upper view of the thirteenth cervical vertebra of the Apteryx australis. 
