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Little spotted kiwi
The little spotted kiwi or little gray kiwi,〔 ''Apteryx owenii'', is a small species of kiwi originally from New Zealand's South Island (they used to live near Marlborough and where tokoeka currently live). Around 1890 to 1910 a population of them was trans-located to Kapiti Island for conservation purposes. Little spotted kiwis are the smallest species of kiwi, at about , about the size of a bantam.
==Taxonomy==
The little spotted kiwi is a ratite and belongs to the Apterygiormes Order, and the Apterygidae Family. Their binomial name ''Apteryx owenii'' breaks down to ''without wings'' and ''owenii'' which is named after Sir Richard Owen.〔Gotch, A. F. (1995)〕 Today, only the nominate subspecies ''A. o. owenii'' exists. The little-known and somewhat mysterious North Island little spotted kiwi ''A. o. iredalei'' from the North Island went extinct in the late 19th century.
The little spotted kiwi was first described in 1847 by John Gould from a specimen obtained by F. Strang. The locality is not recorded but it probably came from Nelson or Marlborough. In 1873, Henry Potts published an account of its habits and about this time specimens were collected in South Westland and sent to England.〔
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