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1. Specimen, Mounted - Historic mounted toroa/royal albatross specimen on a wooden base with shells and sand underfoot.

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2. Specimen, Mounted - Male NZ shoveller duck mounted in flight on a piece of wood.

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3. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted kakapo specimen on square of wood covered with black paper. Specimen low-set in posture. unknown prevenance.

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4. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted male huia standing on branch. No collection data.

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5. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of Buller's mollymawk, found beach wrecked autumn 2003, Orari rivermouth area, South Canterbury.

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6. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of Salvin's mollymawk (Thalassarche salvini) with wings out in flight position. Large metal hook protuding from rear to allow mounting out from wall. Beach-wrecked at Rangitata coastal area April 2001.

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7. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of South Island kokako. Unknown locality.

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8. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of a juvenile Takapu/Australasian gannet, with grey and cream feathers, grey-blue webbed feet, a strong grey-blue beak, a powerful neck and crop, and flat belly. Beqch-wrecked coastal Orari area August 2001.

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9. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of adult hare in sitting/crouching position. Mounted on oval wooden wooden board, stamp on back for P.J. O'Rourke & Sons Taxidermists, Pleasant Point. No locality data.

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10. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of brown kiwi. Glass-fronted boxed case containing diorama with 2 kakapo, 2 lesser spotted kiwi, 1 brown kiwi and 1 weka. Diorama features dried vegetation and blue backdrop. No known provenance for specimens.

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11. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of kakapo parrot. Glass-fronted boxed case containing diorama with 2 kakapo, 2 lesser spotted kiwi, 1 brown kiwi and 1 weka. Diorama features dried vegetation and blue backdrop. No known provenance for specimens.

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12. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of little spotted kiwi. Glass-fronted boxed case containing diorama with 2 kakapo, 2 lesser spotted kiwi, 1 brown kiwi and 1 weka. Diorama features dried vegetation and blue backdrop. No known provenance for specimens.

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13. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of little spotted kiwi. Glass-fronted boxed case containing diorama with 2 kakapo, 2 lesser spotted kiwi, 1 brown kiwi and 1 weka. Diorama features dried vegetation and blue backdrop. No known provenance for specimens.

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14. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of male house sparrow. Specimen found dead in Timaru garden, 2003.

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15. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of pied stilt. Collected coastal Orari area June 2001.

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16. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of red-billed gull in standing position. Specimen found dead on Timaru suburban section, appeared to have been hit by car, June 2012. Red-billed gulls are common as scavengers around suburban Timaru streets.

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17. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of ship rat. Rat caught in trap in Timaru urban garden in area with occasional rat population influxes in gardens and outbuildings

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18. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of the Australasian crested grebe. No locality data.

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19. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of the Little Spotted Kiwi, no locality data.

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20. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of the South Island saddleback. Originally housed in larger Victorian bird cabinet.

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21. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of tui.

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22. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of weasel holding starling chick in jaws. Specimen collected below powerline - it appeared to have been shocked while climbing on line. Collected in 2004, Greymouth area, West Coast, South Island.

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23. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted specimen of whekau/laughing owl. Specimen rather hunched, legs folded down. twisted toes. Unknown locality.

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24. Specimen, Mounted - Mounted spefcimen of kakapo parrot. Glass-fronted boxed case containing diorama with 2 kakapo, 2 lesser spotted kiwi, 1 brown kiwi and 1 weka. Diorama features dried vegetation and blue backdrop. No known provenance for specimens.

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25. Specimen, Mounted - Red deer fawn mounted in resting position, folded legs, head up. Specimen from a deer farm in Peel Forest area.

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26. Specimen, Mounted - Specimen of northern petrel mounted in sitting position.

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27. Specimen, Mounted - Stoat, summer coat, trapped in the Orari River riverbed during pest control work, 2009.

    2009

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28. Specimen, Mounted - Thar head mounted on a wooden shield-shaped board, 1973. The back of the board reads "Shot at Glen Tanner Station, 4th June 1973."

    04/06/1973

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29. Specimen, Mounted - The wings, tail, legs and feet of an Australasian Harrier Hawk recovered from a road kill specimen from an unknown Canterbury location.

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30. Specimen, Mounted - Titi/ sooty shearwater in flight posture; dark grey, long wing expanse (each wing approx 40cm). Beak about 4cm. White feathers underwings. beach-wrecked at orari River mouth beach.

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31. Specimen, Mounted - Two little blue penguins mounted in a diorama, with a female emerging from a hole to greet her mate holding a small (rubber) fish. Beach-wrecked August 2003, Orari River mouth beach.

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32. Specimen, Mounted - Weasel, male, caught on the Orari River as part of the Orari River protection management. September 2009. Has been mounted in a standing position.

    September 2009

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33. Specimen, Mounted - Yellow-eyed penguin mounted standing on rock-like stand. Beach wrecked Orari Rivermouth area August 2003.

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34. Specimen, Mounted - Cast replica of hapuka/groper The h?puku, hapuka or whapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios), also known as groper, is a wreckfish of the family Polyprionidae, found around southern Australia, southern South America, South Africa, Tristan da Cunha and New Zealand at depths between 30 and 800 m. Its length is between 60 and 180 cm, and it can weigh up to 100 kg.

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35. Specimen, Mounted - Nankeen Night Heron mounted inside a wood and glass display case. The heron has black head feathers and two long white feathers emerging from the back of the neck. The breast feathers are cream to caramel, and the flight feathers are brown. The eyes are yellow.

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36. Specimen, Mounted - Specimen of banded dotterel in non-breeding plumage, mounted in standing position. Specimen found dead on shore at Rangitata rivermouth, May 2012. Banded dotterels develop their distinctive dark chestbands and brown chest plumage during breeding season. Plumage can vary. The Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus), known as the Banded Dotterel in New Zealand, is a small (18 cm) wader in the plover family of birds. It lives in beaches, mud flats, grasslands and on bare ground. Two subspecies are recognised, the nominate Charadrius bicinctus bicinctus breeding in New Zealand[1] and the Chatham Islands and Charadrius bicinctus exilis breeding in the Auckland Islands.[2] Adults in breeding plumage are white, with a dark greyish brown back, and have a distinctive brown breast, with a thinner band of black below the neck, and between the eyes and beak. Younger birds have no bands, and are often speckled brown on top, with less white parts. They are fairly widespread in the south of New Zealand, but not often seen in the north. The nominate subspecies is partly migratory, breeding in New Zealand and the Chatham Islands and some wintering in Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji, others staying in New Zealand. The Auckland Islands subspecies is sedentary but some birds move from their territories to the shore. Their eggs are grey, speckled with black, making them well camouflaged against river stones and pebbles, which make up the main structure of their very simple nest.

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37. Specimen, Mounted - Cast replica of patiki/sand flounder, a rounded flatfish. Maori Name: P?tiki Latin Name: Rhombosolea plebeia Weight: less than 0.8kg Length: 25-35cm, reaching 45 cm Family:Pleuronectidae Sand flounder are endemic to New Zealand.[9] New Zealand sand flounder is found in a majority of coastal waters around New Zealand. Its largest population is found at Tasman Bay and on the East Coast of the South Island.[10] Around New Zealand they can be found in harbours, inlets, bays and open water. They prefer coastal areas and are found in waters up to 50m deep but rarely deeper.[10] They can be found in harbours, inlets, bays and open water

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38. Specimen, Mounted - Cast replica of Copper moki fish. M?ori Name: maratea English Name: Copper Moki, Red Moki Scientific Name: Latridopsis forsteri is native to the eastern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia from Victor Harbor, South Australia, to Port Stephens, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.[4] In New Zealand it is found from Stewart Island in the south north to the Three Kings Islands and east to the Chatham Islands.[6] This species inhabits coastal waters down as deep as approximately 60 m (200 ft). Family:Pleuronectidae Sand flounder are endemic to New Zealand.[9] New Zealand sand flounder is found in a majority of coastal waters around New Zealand. Its largest population is found at Tasman Bay and on the East Coast of the South Island.[10] Around New Zealand they can be found in harbours, inlets, bays and open water. They prefer coastal areas and are found in waters up to 50m deep but rarely deeper.[10] They can be found in harbours, inlets, bays and open water

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39. Specimen, Nautiloid - Fossil nautilus shell in rock matrix. Notes from Otago University Geo Museum site: There are two lineages of these cephalopods, the ammonoids and the nautiloids. Nautiloids have simple septa and sutures inside the shell and usually a central siphuncle in contrast to the often very complex septa and sutures and ventral siphuncle of the extinct ammonites. All ammonoids globally died out at the same time as the last of the non-avian dinosaurs, around 66 million years ago. However, the nautiloids survived this mass extinction and a few are still swimming in modern oceans, mostly in seas around the southwest Pacific. The fossil diversity of nautiloids is therefore much larger than the living diversity and includes some truly spectacular discoveries. An Otago Uni specimen was collected 1990 by Andrew Grebneff and Ewan Fordyce from a locality of Bortonian (Late Eocene) age near Evans Crossing, Pareora River in South Canterbury. Andrew identified it as Aturia mackayi, a species named by Charles (later Sir Charles) Fleming in 1945. There are currently three species of Aturia recognised from Aotearoa New Zealand: Aturia mackayi, which ranges in age from the Paleocene to the Eocene; Aturia coxi, which is known from Middle to Late Miocene sites; and Aturia cubaensis, with an overlapping range of Early to Late Miocene. Living Nautilus are scavengers and live on fish, cast-off moults of lobsters, and crabs, and other decaying material. Scientists have suspended the remains of chickens from research vessels as bait when endeavouring to catch live animals for study. It is assumed that fossil nautiloids such as Aturia were also ocean scavengers. Nautilus shells are beautiful examples of logarithmic spirals and, as such, are often used in art works and logos. ‘The Chambered Nautilus’ is the name of the school song of Otago Girls’ High School in Otepoti Dunedin and the school symbol. A 1.8 metre tall bronze sculpture of two hands holding up a chambered nautilus was specially commissioned for the school’s 150th jubilee celebrations. It seems appropriate that animals that swam in seas around Zealandia for millions of years are celebrated in this way even though seas around New Zealand are too cold for nautiloids to survive in today. —Written by Daphne E Lee

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40. Specimen, Orthoptera - Large male tree weta (Hemideina femorata). Found dead in pasture near forest and scrub remnant, Gapes Valley, Geraldine. Has been prepared for display - eviscerated and abdomen stuffed with cotton wool. Mounted in lifelike pose with antennae straight out.

    03/03/2006

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41. Specimen, Orthoptera - Tree Weta mounted on pin. Dead in picnic shelter, Podacarp / broadleaf forest. With four eggs from abdomen Peel Forest, SC. 05/04/2006.

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42. Specimen, Phasmatodea - Stick insect

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43. Specimen, Pisces - Dried seahorse specimen, caught off Timaru coastline in 1970s.

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44. Specimen, Plecoptera - Green stonefly nymph. Under stone in shallow muddy stream, slow moving water. Otaio River, SH1, August 2005.

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45. Specimen, Tooth - Three shark's teeth, from a rock bed, Pareora River - Evans Crossing area.

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46. Specimen, Trichoptera - Caddis fly. Highfield, Timaru. 26/12/2009.

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47. Specimen, amber - Small pieces of fossilised amber, recovered from fossil site on Tengawai River, Sutherlands area near Pleasant Point.

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48. Specimen, bivalve - Fossil bivalve: Cucullaeidae Cucullaea sp? Two different bivalves in sandstone matrix.

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49. Specimen, bivalve - Fossil bivalve: Cucullaeidae cucullaea (Latiarca) worthingtoni (Hutton, 1873b)

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50. Specimen, bivalve - Fossil bivalve: Cucullaeidae cucullaea (Latiarca) worthingtoni (Hutton, 1873b)

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