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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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feathers, which adds somuch to its beauty. No. 61.—Apteryx australis.Kiwi. We have not enjoyed an opportunity of acquiring, from personal observa-tion, any knowledge of the breeding-habits of the curious family of Apterygidas:a description of the eggs of the different species may be thought not out ofplace in the present paper. We believe this species is peculiar to the MiddleIsland. An egg received at the Canterbury Museum from Okarito, or its neigh-bourhood, is believed to be an undoubted specimen of this species,—itarrived, in a fresh state, in November. It was white, much blunted at eachend, and presenting a very smooth surface; this enormous egg gives the fol-lowing measurements : through the axis 5 inches 1 line, with a breadth of3 inches 4 lines. Rev. J. G Wood, in his Nat. Hist. Birds, wi-ites of the eggs laid by theKiwi at the Zoological Gardens, London : These eggs are indeed wonderful, forthe bird weighs j ust a little more than four pounds, and each egg weighs between
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