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Two of Buller's birds

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Two of Buller's birds

This plate showing female (left) and male examples of the soon-to-be extinct huia was one of the lifelike illustrations by J. G. Keulemans for Walter Buller's A history of the birds of New Zealand(1888). At the time of publication, this popular work was considered by many to be a valuable record of the country's native birds before they inevitably died out.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0134-063

by John Gerrard Keulemans

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Alex Calder, Non-fiction – Settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/43296/two-of-bullers-birds (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alex Calder, i tāngia i te 11 November 2013.