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Sir Walter Buller, a naturalist

Painting of Sir Walter Buller (1838–1906) by Ethel Mortlock.

Sir Walter Lawry Buller (1838–1906) was a New Zealand naturalist who wrote the classic study in ornithology A History of the Birds of New Zealand. 

Portrait of Sir Walter Buller, circa 1903, London, by Ethel Mortlock. Purchased 1967 from Wellington City Council Picture Purchase Fund. Te Papa (1967-0028-1).

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