| Unidentified photographer Restoration of the Dinornis maximus 1879 Book illustration University of Texas Libraries LL/77348 Richard Owen, 1879, Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand, (London: John van Voorst), vol. II. plate XCVII, p. 426
Front view of the above skeleton: the individual Professor figured stands 5 feet 11 inches in height: he holds in his hand the original fragment of bone, and points with the other to the corressponding part in the Dinornis maximus. From a photograph.
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