Among the specimens are crania and mandibles, and bones of enormous size. The most remarkable are _the entire series of phalangeals, and the two tarso-metatarsals_, (26 in number,) _of the right and left foot of the same individual bird_ (_Dinornis robustus_), which were found standing erect, one a yard in advance of the other; as if the bird had sunk into the mire, and unable to extricate itself, had perished on the spot. These bones were carefully exhumed and numbered seriatim, and are the only instances of the bones of the foot and metatarsus found in natural connexion; they are, consequently, the first certain examples known of the structure of the feet of the colossal birds of New Zealand. The foot of the Moa, to which these bones belonged, must have been 16 inches long, and 18 inches wide; and the height of the bird about ten feet. (_See the Frontispiece._) [Footnote 91: I must refer for details to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. XV. August 1848.] It would extend this article far beyond the limits assigned to this work, were I to attempt even a cursory account of all the facts and inferences connected with these discoveries. The anatomical and physiological characters of many species and genera will be found in the admirable Memoirs on the _Dinornis_, _Palapteryx_, _Notornis_, &c. by Prof. Owen, in the Transactions of the Zoological Society.[92] [Footnote 92: I regret to state that the egg-shells, and many highly interesting bones, belonging to unknown genera of birds, from Rangatapu or Waingongoro, in my son's first collection, remain undescribed. My notes and observations on the geological position of the ossiferous deposits of the North Island of New Zealand, derived from the sketches and letters of Mr. Walter Mantell, are published in the Geological Journal; those on his collection of fossils from the Middle Island will appear in the same publication in the course of the present year (1850).]