Advancing toward the right is a group which is of special interest, the figure _i_, which is nearly a foot long, having all the appearance of a long-necked bird carrying the head as the cassowary and emu do, and as the moa has done. If this design should represent the moa, I might suggest that it was either a conventional way of drawing that bird or that it was already extinct when this representation was painted according to tradition; in which latter case _k_ might represent the taniwha or gigantic fabulous lizard which is said to have watched the moa. _h_ is doubtless a quadruped, probably a dog, which was a contemporary of the moa and was used also as food by the moa hunters. _j_ is evidently a weapon, probably an adz or tomahawk, and might, being close to the supposed bird, indicate the manner in which the latter was killed during the chase. The post, with the two branches near the top _l_, finds a counterpart in the remnant of a similar figure _g_ between the figures _c_ and _i_. They might represent some of the means by which the moa was caught or indicate that it existed in open country between the forest. _m_, under which the rock in the central portion has scaled off, is like _f_, one of the designs which resemble ancient oriental writing. [Illustration: FIG. 133.--Petroglyph in New Zealand.] Approaching the middle portion of the wall we find here a well-shaped group of paintings, the center of which _n_ has all the appearance of a hat ornamented on the crown. The rim of this broad-brimmed relic measures 2 feet across. The expert of ancient customs and habits of the Malayan and South Indian countries might perhaps be able to throw some light upon this and the surrounding figures, _o_ to _r_. From _q_, which is altogether 3 feet high, evidently issues fire or smoke; it therefore might represent a tree on fire, a lamp or an altar with incense offering. * * * The figure _o_ is particularly well painted, and the outlines are clearly defined, but I can make no suggestion as to its meaning. In _s_ we have, doubtless, the picture of a human being who is running away from _q_, the object from the top of which issues fire or smoke. I am strengthened in my conviction that it is meant for a man by observing a similar figure running away from the monster _aa_. _p_, which has been placed below that group, might be compared to a pair of spectacles, but is probably a letter or an imitation of such a sign.