MORE ABOUT THE MOA.
[From a Correspondent.] ■ > Foxhill, Monday. Messrs Jessop and Cropp, when looking after land last week between Ben Nevis and Gordon's Nob, saw footprints which they, presume to be those of a moa. They were seven inches' across in the hard ground, and in ; th? -ft ground the prints of three claws were noi.iced, the points of fche side ones being 15 inches apart.* It was heard, at night when it was too dark to see anything, and the dogs on hearing it ran into the tent each night in a fright. A search party is starting 1 ; It, was heard about the tent for five nights. -.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 49, 26 February 1877, Page 2
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