AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY
MOA SKELETON FOUND,
A novel experience is related by a Government electrical engineer and an aeelimilisation Society ranger, who had the great fortune, while exploring a route for high tension wires at Waikaremonna last week to come upon a ravine into which access could only he gained by ropes.
In a dry cave, which had been blocked by a huge boulder, they found a splendidly preserved skeleton of a Moa, which when placed in position, will show its height to have been twelve feet nine inches. The. head alone, being of thinner bone, has decayed. The relation of the discovery was accomplished with much humorous detail, absence of the head being compensated for by the skeleton of a pig’s head, which greatly mystified the amateur ornithologists, who studied the skeleton prior to its safe transport to Wairoa. Such a complete and wonderfully preserved frame will he a great acquisition to some museum.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2913, 23 July 1925, Page 3
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155AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2913, 23 July 1925, Page 3
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