2: Fell Timber Creek, where a new rush had set in. There are several indigenousnative varieties of the N. Native Plantain, n. 137: The new genus Dinornis, which includes also the celebratedmoa, or gigantic bird of New Zealand, and bears someresemblance to the present Apteryx, or wingless bird of thatcountry .

a bird not identified, and notin Gould (who accompanied Leichhardt). rubritorqus, Vig. The huge trees on both sides of the river are actually blackwith them. The first settlersin Canterbury, New Zealand, were so called in allusion to thepilgrims to the shrine of St.