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Thick billd [i.e. billed] thrush, inhabits New Zealand, Dusky Bay & Queen Charlotte Sound, called Golobeoo 1820

By Richard Read Senior

Probably South Island Thrush or Piopio (turnagra capensis). Forster procured it at both Dusky Sound & Queen Charlotte Sound in 1773 (On Cook's second voyage, George Forster was responsible for drawing the birds while his father, Johann Reinhold Forster provided descriptions and classified them)

Published date:
1820