Selected Images from the Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library

New Zealand pigeon - Carpophaga novae zealandiae

New Zealand pigeon - Carpophaga novae zealandiae.

Chromolithograph 274 x 206mm. Plate XXIV in W L Buller's 'A history of the birds of New Zealand' 2nd ed (London, 1883).

New Zealand pigeon - Carpophaga novae zealandiae. Shows the kereru (latin name now Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) sitting on a tawa tree (Belschmieda tawa). Drawings & Prints Collection, Reference No. PUBL-0012-24 Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand