Plates from Buller's Birds

Plates from Buller's Birds

A History of the Birds of New Zealand

To celebrate New Zealand Book Month, today's book is Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand, and as this text is online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, we thought we'd show people some of the fantastic colour plates that are present in the work.

Below is a selection of some of the 48 plates that feature in this work, though they are all wonderful in their level of detail.

The plates are the work of John Gerrard Keulemans, an illustrator of many important ornithological texts.

Laughing Petrel	Wandering Albatross	Spotted Shag	Pied Shag
Rifleman and Rock Wren	Blue Heron and White Heron	South Island Weka	Kingfisher
Swamp Rail	Takahe	Kokako	Kakariki
Huia	Saddleback	Black Fantail	Fern Bird
Silver-eye	Tui	Stich Bird	Long-tailed Cuckoo