This drawing of a takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri, previously Nortornis mantelli) is from Walter Mantell’s scrapbook, held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. The illustration was done somewhere on the West Coast in the winter of 1849. Mantell found takahē bones in 1847, and was the first to send bones and a takahē skin back to England for description and identification.
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C-103-116-2
Ink drawing by Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
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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