Portraits of New Zealand Native Birds With excerpts from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 by John Elmer Lee. Portraits of New Zealand Native Birds is 270 pages in length with over 270 photographic portraits of New Zealand's beautiful native, endemic and migratory birds. It contains insights on bird life by 19th and 20th century New Zealand naturalists including tips on photographing birds in the bush, and observations about how best to view birds. The book has been significantly updated with new birds, and there is now a complete updated index and table of contents.