Image: Notornis Mantelli Owen (cropped)
Description: Notornis mantelli - Owen illustration (modern-day Porphyrio hochstetteri or South Island takahē) from Notice of the discovery by Mr Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis, a bird of the Rail family, allied to Brachypteryx, and hitherto unknown to naturalists except in a fossil state, 1850.
Title: Notice of the discovery by Mr Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis, a bird of the Rail family, allied to Brachypteryx, and hitherto unknown to naturalists except in a fossil state
Credit: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/260400#page/11/mode/1up
Author: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852, Mantell, Walter Baldock Durant 1820-1895
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License: Public domain
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