Original caption: huia (male and female) heteralocha acutirostris (three-fifths natural size)an illustration of a pair of huia, a bird which went extinct in 1907 (approx). The bird in the background with the long curved beak is an adult female and the bird in the foreground is an adult male. This image was published in buller, walter lawry (1888) "huia (heteralocha acutirostris): male and female" in a history of the birds of new zealand, volume 1 (2nd ed. ), london: self-published, pp. Plate ii retrieved on 7 september 2010. Date: 1888.
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