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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13365496183).jpg 334 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Feb 27 <br> sandy floors On his return from his present mission he intends <br> to explore these caves and collect any relics they may contain On <br> the present series from Waingongoro I will therefore only remark <br> that it contains some very perfect tarso-metatarsals of that remarkable <br> type named Aptornis by Professor Owen ; a cranimn and several <br> upper mandibles of Falapteryx ; crania of Notornis ; and bones of <br> genera and species undetermined A circumstance is worthy of re- <br> mark as indicative of the high antiquity of some of the bone deposits <br> namely that Moa bones were obtained from a bed of sandy marl <br> abounding in pipes of ironstone and masses of iron pyrites <br> Moa Deposit at Waikouaiti <br> The bones from the Middle Island are almost entirely from the <br> locality in which Dr Mackellar and Mr Percy Earl collected the spe- <br> cimens described in Zool Trans vol iii p 313-319 The ossiferous <br> deposit at Waikouaiti is very dissimilar from that of Waingongoro In- <br> stead of a fine dry incoherent volcanic sand which has preserved the <br> bones in a state of integrity and but slightly altered in composition <br> and colour the bone-bed in the Middle Island is an ancient swamp or <br> morass in which the New Zealand flax Phormium tenax once grew <br> luxuriantly ; it is now covered by a layer of sand and is submerged <br> at high water being visible only when the tide has receded Its <br> inland boundary is obscured by vegetation but from the notes of my <br> son and the verbal account with which I have been favoured by Mr <br> Alfred Wills who has recently arrived in this country from New <br> Zealand and who is well acquainted with the locality the deposit <br> appears to be of very Umited extent <br> Fig 8 ” Sketch of the Coast at Island Point <br> Matainaka <br> Island Point <br> Fig 9 ” Ground Plan of Waikouaiti and Island Point <br> Native Pa <br> Mission <br> House <br> Yellow Bluff <br> Zoological Transactions vol iii p 347 36934195 113689 51125 Page 334 Text v 6 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934195 1850 Geological Society of London NameFound Aptornis NameConfirmed Aptornis EOLID 4364578 NameBankID 4076364 NameFound Notornis NameConfirmed Notornis Owen 1848 EOLID 33387 NameFound Phormium tenax NameConfirmed Phormium tenax EOLID 1015114 NameBankID 3876664 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 6 1850 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36934195 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934195 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-23 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13365496183 2015-08-26 10 55 36 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1850 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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