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Contains correspondence and research notes on various orders of birds;
Whether these files were used in Doctor Robert Falla's research or were Museum generated is not now clear.
Files in this series are:
• Lariformes; 1910 – 1944
• Dinornithiformes : Moas; 1946 – 1953
• Birds eggs; 1929 – 1942
• Apterygiformes; 1945 – 1953
• Cuculiformes; 1944 – 1953
• Foreign Birds; 1928 – 1953
• Charadriiformes; 1946 – 1953
• Coraciiformes; 1930 – 1953
• Strigiformes : owls; 1949 – 1952
• Psittaciformes : kaka, kea, kakapo, parakeets; 1934 – 1952
• Falconiformes : Hawks and Falcons; 1947 – 1952
• Pelecaniformes : totipalmate birds - tropic birds, frigate birds, shags, boobies, gannets; 1945 – 1953
• Ralliformes : rails, gallinulles, coots, weka, woodhen, crakes, Swamphen (pukeko), takahe; 1934 – 1952
• Passeriformes NZ (New Zealand); 1915 - 1952Galliformes : Game birds introduced; 1915 – 1953
• Procellariiformes : petrels, prions, shearwater, albatross, mollymawk; 1917 – 1953
• Ardeiformes - herons, Ibises, spoonbills, bitterns; 1944 – 1953
• Bird Sanctuaries and wildlife; 1944 – 1948
• Passeriformes : Huia; 1917 – 1952
• Sphenischiformes : penguins; 1939 – 1953
• Anatiformes - ducks, geese, swans; 1937 – 1953
• Importation of cage birds; 1946 - 1951