[50] Fr. μάχαιρα “a sword,” and ὀδούς “a tooth.”
[51] From μαστός “a teat,” and ὀδούς “a tooth.”
[52] Palæontology, R. Owen. Edinburgh, 1860.
[53] The British Lion, W. Boyd Dawkins, Contemporary Review, 1882.
[54] The Moa was associated with other species also nearly or totally extinct: some belonging to the same genus, others to those of Papteryx, of Nestor, and of Notornis. One survivor of the latter was obtained by Mr. Gideon Mantell, and described by my father, Mr. John Gould, in 1850. I believe the Nestor is still, rarely, met with. Mr. Mantell is of opinion that the Moa and his congeners continued in existence long after the advent of the aboriginal Maori. Mr. Mantell discovered a gigantic fossil egg, presumably that of the Moa.
[55] A. E. Nordenskjöld, The Voyage of the ‘Vega,’ vol. i. p. 272, et seq. London, 1881.
[56] Pliny, Nat. Hist., Bk. x., chap. xvii., and Bk. xxx., chap. liii.
[57] The Romance of Natural History, by P. H. Gosse, 2nd Series, London 1875.
[58] Pop. Sci. Monthly, October 1878.
[59] Excelsior, vol. iii. London, 1855.