Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . M£T£fi?ALOCHA GOULD/. Fig. I Ma,U. W£„ll<r <i*£ IM ? if hkf Sen :. 25 1855, from the Wainuiomata Hills, a continuation of tlie Bimutaka Range,bounding the Wellington Harbour on the northern side,—the same localityfrom which Dr. Dieffenbach, nearly twenty years before, received the examplesfigured by Mr. Gould in his magnificent work on the Birds of have since obtained many fine specimens, and in the summer of 1864, Isucceeded in getting a pair of live ones. They were caught by a native in theranges, and brought down
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . M£T£fi?ALOCHA GOULD/. Fig. I Ma,U. W£„ll<r <i*£ IM ? if hkf Sen :. 25 1855, from the Wainuiomata Hills, a continuation of tlie Bimutaka Range,bounding the Wellington Harbour on the northern side,—the same localityfrom which Dr. Dieffenbach, nearly twenty years before, received the examplesfigured by Mr. Gould in his magnificent work on the Birds of have since obtained many fine specimens, and in the summer of 1864, Isucceeded in getting a pair of live ones. They were caught by a native in theranges, and brought down to Manawatu, a distance of more than fifty miles,on horseback. The owner refused to take money for them, but I negotiatedan exchange for a valuable greenstone. T kept these birds for more than ayear, waiting a favourable opportunity of forwarding them to the ZoologicalSociety of London. Through the carelessness, however, of a servant, the malebird was accidentally killed, and the other manifesting the utmost distress,pined for her mate
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