NATIVE BIRDS AND EGGS
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS CHANGE HANDS BY Telegraph.—Phess Association. Crristchurcli, February 21. The collection of New Zealand native birds of the late Sir V alter Buller has been acquired by purchase for tho Canterbury Museum from the representatives in England of Sir Valter Duller. This collection is very valuable, partly because of the number, excellent condition, and rarity ot the birds, and partly from tho lact that it is the Buller collection Jhe museum has acquired also the similar collection of the late Dr. B. bL Moorhouse. x . The value to science of these collections is even greater than their inir-rost from the point of view of general natural history, fpr the Buller collection contains many of the specimens which Sir Walter. Buller exontined while preparing his volumes on the “Birds of New Zealand,” and the Moorhouse collection has probably one of tho host sots of native birds’ eggs in existence.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 134, 22 February 1923, Page 7
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