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11001-00101 Little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) detail of a piece of mummified skin, 390mm long, and with a thick covering of feathers, from a dead female moa. Found together with an almost complete mummified skeleton in 1980 by opossum trapper J R Murdock, in a cave near Lake Echo, east of Lake Te Anau. Now on display in the Southland Museum *
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