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position of the barbs. They quit the shaft by curving outward with the convexity 
toward the tip; then ‘continue with a more gentle bend concave toward the tip and 
inclining thereto. 
As the barbs approach the mid-length of the feather the barbules cease to be 
developed at the tip of the barb, and the simple filamentary terminal part of the 
barb forms a greater proportion of its length as the barbs decrease in total length and 
approach the tip in position, 
The grey-brown colour of the barbs preserves the same degree from the basal third 
to the tip of the feather. The dorsal part of the shaft approaches to blackness at its 
mid-length and continues to the tip. 
The barbules connect the barbs together for the extent of a line and a half along the 
basal third of the feather, and for a gradually decreasing length to the apical third, 
where the barbs become free in their whole extent as far as the tip. 
The differences which this feather presents as compared with that of the Dinornis 
described in the preceding pages, and figured in Plate CXIV., are as follows :— 
Ist. The entire absence of an accessory plume or ‘ after-shaft.’ 
2nd. ‘The downy barbs at the base of the main shaft. 
3rd, ‘The greater breadth as compared with the length of the feather. 
4th. The gradual diminution of breadth from the second third part of the length of 
the feather to the tip, which is pointed. 
doth. The absence of the white colour which distinguishes the broad truncate tip of 
the Moa-feather, Plate CXIV. fig, 11. 
6th. The absence of barbules at the terminal portions of the barbs along the apical 
half of the feather. 
In each and all of these differences the feathers adorning the New-Zealand weapon 
accord with those of the Apterya. If feathers of 5 inches 2 lines in length cannot be 
found in any individuals of existing kinds of Kivi, a species larger than these may have 
afforded the ornament in question. hose attached to the ‘ fish-hook,’ which is of 
iron, are too mutilated and decayed to yield reliable characters. 
