This site has information on New Zealand’s major
public herbaria.
More suggestions and sources
Gill, B. J. ‘Birds in Australian and New Zealand
museums: a major resource for ornithology.’ New
Zealand Journal of Zoology 33 (2006):
299–315.
Gill, B. J., ed. Powell’s native animals of
New Zealand. Auckland: David Bateman,
2002.
Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson.
The field guide to the birds of New
Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2005.
Poole, A. L., and Nancy M. Adams. Trees and
shrubs of New Zealand. Lincoln: Manaaki
Whenua, 1994.
Wright, Anthony E. ‘The world of herbaria.’ In
Ecosystems, entomology and plants: proceedings
of a retirement symposium held at Lincoln
University to mark the retirement of Bryony
Macmillan, Brian Molloy, Peter Wardle and John
Dugdale, 17–23. Royal Society of New Zealand
Miscellaneous Series 48. Wellington: Royal Society
of New Zealand, 1998.