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
HUIA
Heteralocha acutirostris
Neomorpha acutirostris
Gould, 1837
MZUT
AV13749; mount; adult male;
New Zealand
, no date; from G. A. Frank, in 1847.
MZUT
AV14030; mount; adult female;
New Zealand
, no date; from G. A. Frank, in 1847.
Remarks
.—
Salvadori (1915)
only mentioned specimen no. 547 (
MZUT
AV13749), specifying that Torino museum purchased it in 1847 from Gustav Adolph Frank (1808–80), a dealer in natural history items and books in Amsterdam.
Elter (1986)
reported both specimens.