North Island brown kiwi

Date: Jul 1981 - 01 Jul 1981

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: OHInt-0834-130

Description: Adult male and female; territory calls, moving around territory; distance 10-50m; Waitangi State Forest, alongside a dam; weather fine calm cool. Mono track. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1701 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other see catalogue card 12a. Search dates: 1981

Date: [2003]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

By: Keulemans, John Gerrard, 1842-1912

Reference: A-477-015

Description: Black and white copy of John Gerrard Keulemans 'North-Island kiwi. Apteryx Bulleri (two-fifths natural size), which was first published in Walter Lawry Buller's 'A history of the birds of New Zealand. 2d. ed. Volume II. London, 1888. Plate 47'. This image was reproduced in Orbell's publication 'Birds of Aotearoa: A natural and cultural history', published by Reed Books in 2003. Annotations on the reverse relate to page numbers and chapters. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photomechanical print on paper, mounted on cardboard, 180 x 190 mm. Transfers: PAColl-10532-02. Processing information: From box 9 in donor's list, and was previously in box that Orbell labelled "The Pictures".

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-015-4

Description: Shows a North Island kiwi in profile, standing on the ground with fern foliage. The printed card into which the painting is inserted reads 'Many happy returns of the day' in gold ink, with a decorative border Other Titles - North Island kiwi Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Apteryx Mantelli [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - N.I. kiwi [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on celluloid, 73 x 110 mm inserted into card 113 x 159 mm

Date: 1955 - 1965

By: Olympic Stationery Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-STATIONERY-1960-01

Description: Writing pad of 36 leaves shows a reproduction of Keulemans' "North-Island kiwi, Apteryx Mantelli", viewed from the side, with two others in the background. This image is "reproduced by courtesy of the Dominion Museum, from the 'Birds of New Zealand' by Sir Walter Buller". The image is framed along the top and sides with an illustrative border of native flowers - kowhai, pohutukawa, fern, and red berries. The image is similar to the "Apteryx Bulleri" at reference number PUBL-0012-47, rather than the "Apteryx mantelli" image at PUBL-0134-358. Various names seem to have been used interchangeably for the North Island Brown kiwi: Apteryx mantelli, Apteryx australis or (earlier usage)Apteryx bulleri. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ruled notepad with offset print on cover, 255 x 205 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sean McMahon in 2011.

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-015

Description: Page of original drawings of native birds on celluloid, prepared as greeting cards and presented as a sample album Quantity: 4 watercolour(s). Physical Description: 1 album page containing four watercolours on celluloid, 73 x 110 mm inserted into cards 113 x 159 mm