Object: Huia, Heteralocha acutirostris
Registration Number  OR.007640
Phylum  Chordata
Class  Aves
Order  Passeriformes
Family  Callaeidae
Scientific Name
Heteralocha acutirostris
Identified By  Buller, Walter Lawry
Identified Date  1877
Common / Maori name  Huia, Family: Wattlebirds
Country collected  New Zealand
Region collected  North Island, Wellington
Precise locality  Wainuiomata
Collected By  Mikaera
Date collected  11 Oct 1877
Section  Birds

Huia egg collected by Mikaera, Wainuiomata, 11 October 1877 and donated by Sir Walter Buller. Although badly damaged, this is the only huia eggknown to exist.

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