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Dunstan Times, Issue 507, 5 January 1872, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Pall }fall Gazette furnishesthe following information regarding the inland districts of Otago, which is doubtless new to those of our readers acquainted with this Province:—‘Some faint hopes arc entertained that in the mountainous reigons of Now Zealand a few specimens of the gigantic moa may still exist and we trust that if any should be found, they will be immediately entrusted to the Aborigines Protection Society.' Dr. J, Hector, EL lb S., has lately acquired possession of part of the skeleton of one of these birds which have been supposed to be extinct, and infers its recent existence from the fact that feathers still adhere to it. Ho believes that in the inland districts o‘’ Otago where the grassy plains and rolling bills were covered with a dense scrub the giant wingless birds of New Zealand to a later period lingered Bones art to bo found in great profusion in this region, and Dr. Hector himself observed in 18(13, upon one of the flat-topped mountains nesr Jackson’s Bay. numerous well-beaten tracks through (he scrub which could have been male (though not then used) only by some very large indigenous bird. The south-west district of Otago is even at the present time imperfectly known and we ow-e itscomplete survey to some enterprising ornithologist in search of the gigantic moa.

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