The Strange Animal.
■»■'■■ ■ — Says the Hawke's Bay fferaM : — Whether the animal seen at Gisborne by a bushman last week was a komi or not is problematical. The Bey. W. Oolenso, F.E.S., in tbe absence of fuller particulars, believes it is one of the largest lizards muntionedin " Cook's Voyages." Captain Hutton inclines to the opinion that the animal was a Urge tuatara, the lize of which was very much exaggerated, by thy bushfaller who saw it, as these reports always are ex aggerated. Captain Hutton points out that th'd tautara existed on the North Is! 'and, and ' a specimen now in the A ackland Museum was secured there. Professor Dendy is much of the dame opinion, and thinks that soFje proof of the exiatance of snch a'a animal as the supposed kumi would have been found in tbe shape of skeletons, or fossilised remains, if it ever did exist.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1898, Page 3
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148The Strange Animal. Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1898, Page 3
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