Dinornis

Dinornis, a genus of gigantic ostrich-like birds, related to the little wingless kiwi or Apteryxt of New Zealand, but reaching a height of 10 or 11 feet. The egg of one kind is 10 inches long. Some 20 species occur in Pleistocene deposits and caves in New Zealand, where they are known to the Maoris, by whom they were probably exterminated, as Moas. Skin and feathers have been found, and remains of the genus have also been discovered in Queensland.