The Unburnt Egg, page 18
Kaimohu Island 132-133, 134
kākā 94, 113, 192
kākāpō 21, 94, 123, 192
Karewa Island 24-25
kekeno see New Zealand fur seals
king penguins 14, 26-27
kiore 88, 104, 116, 121, 125, 126, 127
koekoeā see long-tailed cuckoos
L
Lambert, Ron 44
Latham, John 32
Leclerc, Georges-Louis 216
Lesser Sunda Islands 35, 37
Lifuka (Tonga) 156, 157
Little Barrier Island 73-74, 84, 127, 191
lizards 139-140, 143, 145, 148, 149-150, 153, 155-156, 163, 166-167, 173, 178, 182, 199-200, 207
see also geckos; skinks
Lofanga (Tonga) 157-160
London 57, 58, 59, 60-62, 63, 90, 95, 97, 100
long-tailed cuckoos 64, 65-75
Lutui, Timote 157, 158, 159-160
Lyall's wrens 129-130
Lyras, George 127-128
M
Macquarie Island 26, 27
Mangōnui 48-49
Mantell, Gideon 58, 59
Mantell, Walter 54-55, 58-59, 60
Māori 55, 67-68, 96, 97, 98, 125, 131-132, 188, 205, 215
bird names 191-193; see also individual bird species impact on wildlife 59, 104-105, 130
interaction with European settlers 55, 67-68, 98, 99
middens 42, 106, 115
see also Polynesian settlement
Mariner, Will 156
Martin, Anthony 62
Martin, Josiah 27
Mason, George 99
Massey University 3, 45, 73, 140
Matthews, Louie 49, 50
Mayr, Ernst 34, 37
McCann, Carlyle 144, 145, 148
McCann, Charles 139-141, 143-151
McCann, Eleanor 145, 148
McLean, John 77-78, 80, 81-84
Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand (Owen) 60
meteorology 20
mice 122, 125-126, 204
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 155-156, 199, 207, 208-209,
moa 7, 52, 53-54, 57-59, 60, 94, 105, 106, 113-114
coastal 50
eggs 41-45, 47-51, 53-54, 55-57, 205-206, 210
giant 62, 193
stout-legged 45, 47-48
Moa—A Study of the Dinornithiformes, The (Archey) 7
Murphy, Robert 165
museum exchanges 6, 7, 9, 21
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris) 6, 161, 189-190
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 96, 117-118, 146
mustelids 99, 126
Mutton Birds and Other Birds (Guthrie-Smith) 77
N
Native Animals of New Zealand (Powell) 196-197
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) 146-147
Natural History Museum (Hertfordshire) 142
Natural History Museum (London) 57, 59, 60, 62, 95, 142
Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds (Campbell) 82
New Caledonia 33, 157, 169
New Plymouth 40, 41, 44, 45, 47-48
New Zealand Bird Life (Turbott) 85
New Zealand Bird Notes (journal) see Notornis
(journal)
New Zealand fur seal 116-117, 118, 123
New Zealand Geological Survey of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 42-43, 44
New Zealand kingfisher 10-11, 202
New Zealand sea lions 108, 117-119
New Zealand thrush 21
New Zealand Total Solar Eclipse Expedition 86, 87-91
New Zealand wrens 94, 104, 233 113, 126, 129, 130-131, 132-133
North Cape 116, 118
North Island brown kiwi 59
North Island kōkako 21, 80, 93, 94, 95, 192
North Island saddlebacks 80, 94, 134
North Island takahē 59, 109, 110-111, 113, 123, 192
Northland 48-51, 104, 109, 113, 116, 118, 188
Norway rats 125-126, 134
Notornis (journal) 70, 82
O
Ōhawe 54
Olson, Storrs 106-107
Ommanney, F.D. vii
On the Origin of Species (Darwin) 3
Onslow, Lord 99
oology see bird eggs; see also under moa Orbell, Geoffrey 110
Orbell, Margaret 67-68
Ornithological Society 70, 191
ornithology see bird eggs; bird migration; bird translocation; extinction; predation; individual bird species
osteology 6-9, 56, 57-58, 62, 104, 106-107, 109, 112-116, 117-119, 123, 129-130, 203-204, 208
osteometry 6-7
Otago 44-45, 47-48, 111-112, 205
Otago University 12
Ovalau (ship) 174, 175
Owen, Sir Richard 52, 57-63
P
Pacific rats see kiore
palaeontology 41, 54, 55, 57, 62, 104, 106-107, 109, 111-119, 123, 129-130
Paris 6, 161, 189-190, 216
parrots see kākā; kākāpō
penguins see king penguins
Phoenix Islands 82, 83, 86, 89
piopio 21
Pipiwharauroa (Shining Cuckoo), The (Duggan) 30
Pleistocene Epoch 113, 130
Polynesian settlement 54, 57, 95, 104-105, 106, 107, 110, 113, 114, 116, 118, 124-125, 130
see also Māori
Poor Man's Physician (Moncrief) 211
Port au Prince (ship) 156
Powell, Baden 187, 194, 195-197
predation 82, 83, 99, 103, 104-105, 106, 107, 110, 116, 124, 134-136, 158, 182
preservation of specimens 11, 74, 121, 141-142, 143, 153, 171, 172, 182, 199, 216-217
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 59
puffins see flesh-footed shearwaters
pūkeko 109-110, 192
Q
Queen Charlotte Sound 32, 125
R
rails 94, 107, 109, 113, 134, 165
see also North Island takahē; South Island takahē Rarotonga 171-173, 175-182
Rarotongan starling 172, 182-183
rats 82, 99, 107, 121-122, 123, 182
eradication of 126
kiore 88, 104, 116, 121, 125, 126, 127
Norway rats 125-126, 134
ship rats 120, 126, 132, 134-137, 158
see also extinction; predation
Records of the Auckland Museum 44, 90, 146, 185-186, 187-190, 193-194, 195
Reed, Sylvia 126-127
Resolution (ship) 32
Rice family (Rarotonga) 176, 177, 182
rifleman 129
Rinke, Dieter 155
rock wrens 129
rodents 121-122
see also kiore; mice; rats
Rothschild, Walter 71
Royal College of Surgeons (London) 60, 63
Royal Society of London 68
S
saddlebacks see North Island saddlebacks; South Island saddlebacks
Salmond, Anne 214
sea slugs 184, 194, 195
shags 81, 89
shining cuckoos 28, 29-34, 35-39
ship rats 120, 126, 132, 134-137, 158
skinks 139-140, 141, 152, 156, 157, 158-159, 161, 163, 164-165, 166-167, 178
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) 21, 22, 159
Smyth, William 26, 27
snakes 143, 144, 147, 148, 149, 199-200, 207-208
solar eclipse 86-87, 90
Solomon Islands 34, 37, 38, 132
song thrushes 198
South Island kōkako 77, 93, 192
South Island saddlebacks 94, 133-134, 142
South Island snipes 133
South Island takahē 59, 110-111, 123, 192
South Latitude (Ommanney) vii St Bathans 111-112, 123
Steadman, David 107
Stephens Island 129-130
Stewart Island 77, 118, 131, 191
Suarez, A.V. vii
Swainson, William 45-46
swamphens see North Island takahē; pūkeko; South Island takahē
Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands, A (Gould) 97
T
takahē see North Island takahē; South Island takahē
Taranaki Museum 44, 47
taxidermy 5, 15-16, 20-21, 27, 103-104
taxonomy vii, 53, 113, 146, 191, 214
Tokerau Beach 49, 50-51
Tonga 153, 154-164
Tongan whistler 161
Tongatapu 153, 154, 157
Tracy, Lisa 12
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 173
Travels in New Zealand (Dieffenbach) 69
Trial of the Cannibal Dog, The (Salmond) 214
tropical gannets see boobies, masked Tsutsui, N.D. vii tuatara 24, 25, 68
tūī 22
Turbott, Nancy 91
Turbott, Graham 85, 91, 187
Turbott, Ian 91
U
University of New Zealand 7
V
Vaile, Edward 60
van Helden, Anton 118
Vava'u islands (Tonga) 161-164
Victoria University of Wellington 139, 140
W
Wairarapa 98-99, 100, 104
Wairarapa (ship) 26
Wallace, Alfred 69
Wallis and Futuna (islands) 166-169
Ward, Henry 7-8, 9, 16
Wellington 20, 69, 98, 117-118, 131, 139, 140, 146-147, 191
Wellington (ship) 87, 89, 90
Western Samoa 35, 90, 163, 164-166
Whitney South Sea Expedition 34-35, 69, 71, 165
Whitney, Gertrude 34
Whitney, Harry 34
Wildlife Service (New Zealand) 132-133
see also Department of Conservation (DOC)
Winder, Ray 62-63
Winkelmann, Henry 20
Worthy, Trevor 111-112
wrens see Lyall's wrens; New Zealand wrens; rock wrens
Wright, Anthony 154-155, 156-159, 160
Y
Yates, William 96
yellowhead (mohua) 12, 67, 94
Z
Zealandia (ship) 19, 24
zoological nomenclature 32, 97-98, 193, 194-195
Zoological Society of London 57-58, 59, 97
Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, The (Richardson & Gray) 69, 214
Zug, George 159, 163
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