^{page 238 note *} The interesting discovery there of a large fossil bird has lately been made known by the distinguished geologist the Rev. W. B. Clarke, who first made public the marvellous auriferous and general mineral wealth of that continent, and by his indefatigable researches has added so much to our knowledge of its strange denizens in the past, as well as at the present time. Professor Owen has named this bird dromornis, considering it to have been more allied to the emeu than the moa or apterix tribe.

^{page 239 note *} The paper was accompanied by two photographs. Of these, one was that of the skeleton of one of the largest specimens hitherto obtained. It is placed in the museum at Christ Church, New Zealand, beside that of a tall man. It was one of a great number dug up by Mr Moore at Glenmark in Canterbury province, in a piece of swampy ground, now transformed into a fine garden, which had been one of those places into which the bones of different individuals were washed from the hills around during freshes, and into which the moas rushed when driven by the fires kindled by the natives for the purpose of driving their game, dray loads of bones being here collected.

^{page 240 note *} This volcano has evidently been quiet for a long period, but its name, “bloody heavens,” denotes that it has not always been so, since the Maories first sailed up Hauraki Gulf.