Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy Author Ghiraldi, Luca Author Aimassi, Giorgio text Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 2019 2019-03-15 139 1 28 45 journal article 298440 10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2 27f5c2ae-1d4d-4f0e-b33a-13620b3d69df 2513-9894 11637476 BLACK STILT Himantopus novaezelandiae CR Himantopus novae-zelandiae Gould, 1841 MZUT AV6940; previously mounted; adult male; New Zealand , no date; from O. Finsch, in 1869. Remarks .—Otto Finsch (1839–1917), the German ethnographer, naturalist and explorer, was curator or director of natural history museums in Leiden ( the Netherlands ) and Bremen ( Germany ) ( Mearns & Mearns 1998 ). Finsch visited New Zealand only in 1881 and 1885, but he exchanged specimens with J. Haast in 1860; therefore, this specimen was not collected by Finsch himself, but probably came from one of these exchanges (P. Scofield pers. comm.).