11001-00110 Little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) egg [MNZS457] from Martinborough Cave 5, Haurangi. This large wingless ground bird is now extinct, but it was formerly widespread in closed canopy forests *
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 *
11001-00302 Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) eggshell of large wingless ground bird now extinct but formerly widespread in the South Island lowlands, in forests, shrublands, dunelands and grasslands. This is one of W.B.D. Mantell's original reconstructions [MNZS00002] from Awamoa, near Oamaru *
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