These are the lithographed images of the bone fragment that accompanied Richard Owen’s article, ‘Notice of a fragment of a gigantic bird of New Zealand’. The article was published in the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London in 1839 and proclaimed to the world that a huge bird had once lived in New Zealand.
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Reference:
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 3 (1839): p.33
Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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