there were three subspecies of the bush wren. The North Island X.l.stokesii is known from only three specimens from the mid-1800s. The South Island X.l.longipes was widespread at the time of European occupation but has probably been extinct since the mid-1900s (last records may have been as late as the 1960s). The Stewart Island X.l.variabilis was the last surviving subspecies and became extinct around 1972 after rats had reached its last hold-out, Big South Cape Island. This specimen was photographed at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, NZ (I think its of the South Island subspecies)
