MOA BONES FOUND
♦ PACKED AND SENT TO AUCKLAND v A VALUABLE FIND. Mr. G. Archie, curator of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, accompaned by his wife and Mr. Pycroft, ornithologist, were the guests.of Mr. and Mrs. E. Phillips, of the Marakopa Valley, during the week-end. On Sunday a large equestrian party of both sexes, favoured by splendid weather, set out to explore the caves in which the moa skeletons were recently discovered. As a result of their investigations a number of petrol cases full of moa bones have been despatched to Auckland. None of the skeletons were entirely complete, though almost so. They were mostly mature birds of medium size and are of special interest to science as extending the data and knowledge of the habits and species of this extinct - genus, representing the largest and most powerful bird, if ungainly, known in the annals of bird life.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3444, 17 March 1932, Page 5
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148MOA BONES FOUND King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3444, 17 March 1932, Page 5
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