. Animals of the past : an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. Paleontology. FEATHERED GIANTS 125 that iiiliabitod the mountain-side some eii>hty miles away. This miohly bird, the last of his race, was said to bo attended l)y two e(inally huge lizards that kept i>i lie slei)t, and on the ap man wakened the ^loa, mediately rushed upon t e r s and trampled them to death. None of the Maoris had seen this bird, but they had seen and somewhat i r r e v e r- ently used, for making parts of their fishing tackle, bones of its extinct relatives, and these bones they de- clared
. Animals of the past : an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. Paleontology. FEATHERED GIANTS 125 that iiiliabitod the mountain-side some eii>hty miles away. This miohly bird, the last of his race, was said to bo attended l)y two e(inally huge lizards that kept i>i lie slei)t, and on the ap man wakened the ^loa, mediately rushed upon t e r s and trampled them to death. None of the Maoris had seen this bird, but they had seen and somewhat i r r e v e r- ently used, for making parts of their fishing tackle, bones of its extinct relatives, and these bones they de- clared to be as large as those of an ox. About the same time another mission- sary, the Rev. Rich- ard Taylor, found a bone ascribed to the ^loa, and met with a very similar tradi- tion among the na- tives of a near-by district, only, as the foot of the rainl)ow moves away as we move toward it, in. his case the bird was said to dwell in quite Lof^ bones of liorse compared with those of a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929. New York : American Museum of Natural History
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