THE STRANGE ANIMAL.
Says the Hawke’s Bay Herald : Whether the animal seen at Gisborne by a bushman last week was a kumi or not is problematical. The Kev W. Ooleaso, F.R.S., in the absence of fuller particulars, believes it is one of the largest lizards mentioned in ‘ Cook’s Voyages.’ Captain Hutton inclines to the opinion that the animal was a large tuatara, the size of which was very much exaggerated by the bushfaller who saw it, as these reports always are exaggerated Captain Hutton points out that the tautara existed on the North Island, and a specimen now in the Auckland Museum was secured there. Professor Bendy is much of the same opinion, and chinks that some proof of the existance of such an animal as the supposed kumi would have been found in the shape of skeletons, or fossilised remains, if it ever did exist.
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Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 109, 26 September 1898, Page 2
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