Huia
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{{Taxobox
| name = Huia
| status = EX | status_system = IUCN3.1
| extinct = [[1907]]
| image = Huia Buller.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = Male (front) and female Huia
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Aves]]
| ordo = [[Passeriformes]]
| familia = [[Callaeidae]]
| genus = '''''Heteralocha'''''
| genus_authority = [[Jean Cabanis|Cabanis]], [[1851]]
| species = '''''H. acutirostris'''''
| binomial = ''Heteralocha acutirostris''
| binomial_authority = ([[John Gould|Gould]], [[1837]])
| synonyms =
''Neomorpha acutirostris''<br/>
''Neomorpha crassirostris'' <small>(male)</small><br/>
''Heteralocha gouldi''
}}
The '''Huia''', ({{IPA-all|huiɑ}}) ''Heteralocha acutirostris'', was a [[species]] of [[Callaeidae|New Zealand Wattlebird]] [[endemism|endemic]] to the [[North Island]] of [[New Zealand]]. It became [[extinction|extinct]] in the early 20th century, primarily as a result of overhunting and widespread [[Deforestation|habitat destruction]]. The last confirmed sighting was on 28 December 1907 when W.W. Smith saw three birds in the [[Tararua Ranges]].<ref name="FGBNZ"/> Further credible sightings were reported as late as 1922.<ref name="FGBNZ"> Barrie Heather and Hugh Robertson, "''The Field guide to the Birds of New Zealand", (revised edition)'', Viking, 2005</ref><ref name="WS"/>
The Huia was notable for a remarkable degree of [[sexual dimorphism]] in bill shape. The male and female had markedly different bills, although the sexes were otherwise similar with predominantly black [[plumage]]. The Huia held a special place in [[Māori culture]] and [[Māori mythology|oral tradition]]; the bird was regarded as [[Tapu (Polynesian culture)|tapu]] (sacred), and the wearing of its skin or feathers was restricted to people of high status.
==Taxonomy and naming==
Australian ornithologist [[John Gould]] described the Huia in 1837. The [[specific epithet]] ''acutirostris'' derives from [[Latin]] ''acutus'', meaning "sharp pointed", and ''rostris'', meaning "beak", and refers to the beak of the female.<ref name="HANZAB">Higgins, P.J. & J.M. Peter (eds) 2003. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 6: Pardalotes to Shrike-thrushes. Oxford University Press, Melbourne. ISBN 0-19-553762-9</ref> With its short bill, the male was first described as a separate species with the epithet ''crassirostris'' from the Latin ''crassus'', "thick, heavy".<ref name="HANZAB"/> The Huia appears to be a remnant of an early expansion of [[passerines]] in New Zealand, and is one of three New Zealand wattlebirds of the family [[Callaeidae]], the others being the [[Endangered species|endangered]] [[Tieke]] (Saddleback) and the [[Kōkako]]. New Zealand Wattlebirds have no close relatives apart from the [[Stitchbird]], and their taxonomic relationships to other birds remains to be determined.<ref>Ewen, John G.; Flux, Ian & Ericson, Per G. P. (2006): Systematic affinities of two enigmatic New Zealand passerines of high conservation priority, the hihi or stitchbird ''Notiomystis cincta'' and the kokako ''Callaeas cinerea''. ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' '''40'''(1): 281–284. {{DOI|10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.026}} [http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e1d3ca810c24ddc7038000945/Ewen+et+al+Stitchbird+MPEV+2006.pdf PDF fulltext]</ref>
==Description==
The Huia had black plumage with a green metallic tinge<ref name="MBL">Murdoch Riley, ''"Māori Bird Lore: An introduction"'', Viking Sevenseas NZ, 2001</ref> and distinctive rounded bright orange [[Wattle (anatomy)|wattle]]s at the [[gape]]. In both sexes the beak was ivory white and greyish at the base.<ref name="NGBNZ">R.A. Falla, R.B.Sibson, E.G. Tubott,''"The New Guide to the Birds of New Zealand"'', Collins, 1979</ref> The legs and feet were long and bluish grey while the claws were light brown.<ref name="NGBNZ"/> The bird had twelve<ref name="FLM"> Elsdon Best, "''Forest Lore of the Māori''", [[Te Papa]] Press, 2005</ref> long glossy black tail feathers, each tipped for 2.5–3 cm (1 in)<ref name="NGBNZ"/> with a broad band of white.<ref name="WS"/> The immature Huia had duller plumage and the white tips of the tail feathers were tinged a reddish-buff colour. The wattles were small and pale. The beak of the young female was only slightly curved.<ref name="NGBNZ"/> [[Māori]] referred to certain Huia as ''huia-ariki''—literally "chiefly Huia". The huia-ariki had brownish plumage streaked with grey,<ref name="NZ Geo"/> and the feathers on the neck and head were darker.<ref name="NZ Geo"/><ref name="MBL"/> This variant may have been a partial [[albinism|albino]], or perhaps such birds were simply of great age. Several true albino Huia were recorded.<ref name="NZ Geo"/>
The Huia is the only bird known to show marked sexual dimorphism in the shape and size of the [[beak]].<ref name="NZ Geo"/> The beak of the male was short (approximately 60 [[millimetre|mm]]), slightly arched downwards<ref name="MBL"/> and robust, like that of a [[woodpecker]], while the female's beak was finer, long (approximately 104 mm) and curved downward like that of a [[hummingbird]] or [[honeyeater]]. Another, less obvious aspect of the Huia's sexual dimorphism was the size difference between the sexes. Males were 45 cm (18 in) long, while females were larger at 48 cm (19 in) in length.<ref name="FGBNZ"/>
==Distribution and habitat==
[[Subfossil]] and [[midden]] remains of the Huia have been found throughout the [[North Island]] from [[Northland]] to [[Wellington]]<ref name="FGBNZ"/>. Its range appears to have contracted following Māori settlement (see [[Huia#Human induced decline and extinction|below]]). By the time of European settlement in the 1840s, the bird was found only in the forests of the southern North Island south of a line from the [[Raukumara Range]] in the east, across the [[Kaimanawa Range]] to the [[Turakina River]] in the [[Rangitikei District|Rangitikei]] in the west.<ref name="FGBNZ"/> In the south its range extended to the [[Wairarapa]] and [[Rimutaka Range]] east of Wellington.<ref name="FGBNZ"/> Reports collected by Buller and a single ''waiata'' (Māori song) suggest that Huia were once also found in the Marlborough and Nelson districts of the [[South Island]]; however, there is no other evidence of the species' presence.<ref name="NZ Geo"/>
==Ecology and behaviour==
[[Image:Lappenhopf fg01.jpg|thumb|left|Mounted female Huia; note the well-developed, long legs and long downwardly curved beak.]]
Like the surviving New Zealand wattlebirds, the [[saddleback]] and the [[kokako]], the Huia used its rounded wings to fly short distances, but preferred to use its strong legs to move in long leaps and bounds through the canopy or over the forest floor.<ref name="FGBNZ"/> The tail was spread to help the bird balance as it clung vertically to tree trunks.<ref name="WS"/>A quiet, social bird, the Huia was [[monogamous]] with pairs bonding for life.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> The bird was usually found in breeding pairs, although sometimes groups of 4 or more were encountered.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> [[Walter Buller]] records that a pair would always keep close to each other, constantly uttering a "low affectionate twitter", even when in captivity. He also observed that a pair he held in captivity would frequently [[Social grooming|groom]] each other.<ref name="Buller"/> When the male of this pair was accidentally killed, the female "manifesting the utmost distress pined for her mate and died 10 days afterwards".<ref name="Buller"/> A Māori man in the 19th century recalled that "I was always told by my old people that a pair of Huia lived on most affectionate terms... If the male died first the female died soon after of grief".<ref name="MBL"/> The bird was named for its loud distress call, a smooth, unslurred whistle sounding like the words "Who-are-you-o".<ref name="NZ Geo"/> If this call was imitated, the bird would come to investigate.<ref name="FGBNZ"/> The Huia had no fear of people, and therefore could be captured easily by hand.<ref name="FLM"/> Females also allowed themselves to be handled on the nest.<ref name="MBL"/> An imitation of the bird's call survives as a recording of 1909 Huia Search Team member Henare Haumana whistling the call (NZ Sound Archives).
A species of [[Philopteridae|phtilopterid]] [[louse]] has been described from the Huia. ''[[Rallicola extinctus]],''<ref name="Palma">Palma, R. L. (1999): Amendments and additions to the 1982 list of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from birds in New Zealand. ''Notornis'' 46(3): 373–387. [http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_46-1999/Notornis_46_3_373.pdf PDF fulltext]</ref> formerly considered the only species of a separate genus ''Huiacola'' ("Huia inhabitant"), apparently became [[Coextinction|extinct with its host]].<Ref name="Mey">Mey, Eberhard (1990): Eine neue ausgestorbene Vogel-Ischnozere von Neuseeland, ''Huiacola extinctus'' (Insecta, Phthiraptera). ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'' 224(1/2): 49-73. [German with English abstract] [http://www.phthiraptera.org/Publications/0472.pdf PDF fulltext]</ref>
===Feeding===
[[Image:Heteralocha acutirostris.jpg|200px|thumb|Huia pair]]
The Huia mainly inhabited the mountainous regions of the North Island, descending in winter or in periods of cold weather to lowland forests on the plains to forage for food.<ref name="MBL"/> Its diet consisted of insects and their [[larva]]e, including [[weta]], [[huhu]], [[spider]]s, as well as small berries.<ref name="FGBNZ"/> The sexual dimorphism of the bill structure gave rise to feeding strategies that differed radically between the sexes. The male used its bill to chisel into the outer layers of decaying or live wood, whereas the female probed areas inaccessible to the male, e.g. the burrows of insect larvae in living wood. Studies of the anatomy of the male head and neck musculature also suggest that the male was capable of "gaping", which involved the bird inserting its bill into rotting wood to split the wood.<ref name="NZ Geo"> "''Huia; The sacred Bird''", Michael Szabo, New Zealand Geographic, number 20, October-December 1993</ref>
Contrary to popular opinion, meals were not often shared by a pair (although such behaviour may have occasionally served to strengthen the pair bond). A pair did not cooperate in feeding, at least not in a strict sense. All such reports are based on misunderstanding of an account by Buller,<Ref name="Buller">Buller, W. L. (1888) ''A History of the Birds of New Zealand'' (2nd edition). Published by the author, London</ref> which referred to a pair kept in captivity.<Ref name="Jamieson and Spencer">Jamieson, I. G. & Spencer, H. G. (1996): The bill and foraging behaviour of the Huia (''Heteralocha acutirostris''): were they unique? ''Notornis'' 43(1): 14–18. [http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_43-1996/Notornis_43_1_14.pdf PDF fulltext]</ref> Rather, the divergent bills represent an extreme example of [[niche differentiation]], by which [[intraspecific competition]] between the sexes was reduced. This allowed the species to exploit a wide range of food sources.<Ref name="Moorhouse">Moorhouse, R. J. (1996): The extraordinary bill dimorphism of the Huia (''Heteraclocha acutirostris''): sexual selection or intersexual competition? ''Notornis'' 43(1): 19–34. [http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_43-1996/Notornis_43_1_19.pdf PDF fulltext]
</ref> While sexual dimorphism in bill shape is found in other birds, it was most pronounced in the Huia. The [[woodhoopoe]]s and certain [[bird of paradise|birds of paradise]]<Ref name="Firth">Frith, C. B. (1997): Huia (''Heteralocha acutirostris: Callaeidae'')-like sexual bill dimorphism in some birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae) and its significance. ''Notornis'' 44(3): 177-184. [http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_44-1997/Notornis_44_3_177.pdf PDF fulltext]</ref> show a similar, but less extreme, dimorphism, and the bills of many [[hummingbirds]] show sexual difference in length which is not linked to variations in body size.
===Reproduction===
Little is known about the Huia's reproduction; however, the breeding season was thought to be early summer,<ref name="NZ Geo"/> when the birds constructed a saucer-shaped nest of dried grass, leaves,<ref name="MBL"/> sticks and twigs with a small, shallow central cup made of soft materials to cushion and insulate the eggs.<ref name="NZ Geo"/><ref name="FGBNZ"/> The nest was built either in a hollow tree or in a mass of dense vegetation.<ref name="NGBNZ"/> Nesting took place in November.<ref name="WWFE">{{cite encyclopedia| title =Huia | encyclopedia =The Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Extinct Species of Modern Times| volume =1| pages =63-65| publisher =Beacham Publishing | date =1997}}</ref> The clutch size was two to four eggs, which were greyish with purple and brown speckles and measured 45 by 30 mm. Most Huia nests were found near the summits of mountain ranges.<ref name="MBL"/>
==Relationship with humans==
===Place in Māori and New Zealand European culture===
[[Image:TukukinoLindauer.jpg|thumb|right|Tukukino, a chief from the Hauraki district, wearing a ''pōhoi'' ornament made a Huia skin, circa 1880]]
In Māori culture, only people of high rank wore Huia feathers.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> In some legends, the Huia was one of the birds attained from the heavens by [[Tāwhaki]] so that his wife could decorate her hair with its feathers; this celestial origin meant that the feathers of the Huia were treated with the greatest respect.<ref name="MBL"/>
In other traditions, the Huia was the leader of the [[hākuturi]], the spirit guardians of the forest, which included [[Whitehead (bird)|Whiteheads]] and [[Rifleman (bird)|Riflemen]].<ref name="MBL"/> A single Huia feather was worn as a talisman against misfortune. If a man dreamed of a Huia or its feathers, it meant his wife would conceive a daughter; if he dreamed of [[Great Egret|Kōtuku]] feathers it implied the conception of a son.<ref name="MBL"/>
The bold and inquisitive nature of the Huia made it particularly easy to capture or kill.<ref name="FLM"/><ref name="NZ Geo"/> Māori attracted the Huia by imitating its call and then captured it with a ''tari'' (a carved pole with a noose at the end) or snare or killed it with clubs or long spears. Often they exploited the strong pair bond by capturing one of a pair, which would then call out, attracting its mate which could then be easily captured.<ref name="NZ Geo"/><ref name="Buller"/> Although not usually hunted for food, the Huia was considered excellent eating.<ref name="MBL"/>
Although the Huia's range was restricted to the southern North Island, its feathers were valued highly and that they were exchanged amongst tribes for other valuable goods such as greenstone and shark teeth or given as tokens of friendship and respect. Through this trade, the feathers reached the far north and the far south of [[New Zealand]].<ref name="FLM"/><ref name="NZ Geo"/> They were stored in intricately carved boxes called ''waka huia'' which were hung from the ceilings of chief's houses.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> Huia feathers were worn at funerals and used to decorate the heads of the deceased.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> The ''marereko'', described by [[Edward Robert Tregear]] as an 'ancient war-plume' consisted of twelve Huia feathers.<ref name = "TGR">{{cite web |author=Edward Robert Tregear |date=1904 |title=''The Māori Race'' |work= |publisher=Archibald Dudingston Willis:Wanganui |url=http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-TreRace.html|accessdate=2007-09-02 }}</ref> The ''pōhoi'', an ornament made from the skin of the Huia, was highly valued. The bird was skinned with the beak, skull and wattles attached, while the legs and wings were removed.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> The skin was carefully dried and the resulting ''pōhoi'' ornament was worn from the neck or ears.<ref name="MBL"/>
A captured Huia would be kept in a small cage so that its tail feathers could be plucked as they grew to full size.<ref name="MBL"/><ref name="FLM"/> The bird was also kept by Māori as a pet, and like the [[Tui (bird)|Tui]], it could be trained to say a few words.<ref name="MBL"/> There is also a record of a tame Huia kept by European settlers in a small village in the [[Tararua District|Forty-mile bush]] in the 19th century.<ref name="FLM"/>
===Human-induced extinction===
[[Image:WearingHuiafeathers.jpg|thumb|right|Māori man from the Hauraki district wearing Huia tail feathers in his hair, before 1886]]The Huia was found throughout the North Island before humans arrived in New Zealand. The Māori arrived around 800 years ago and by the time European settlers arrived in the 1840s habitat destruction and hunting had reduced the bird's range to the southern North Island. Māori hunting pressures on the Huia were however, limited to some extent by traditional protocols. The main hunting season was from May to July when its plumage was in prime condition, while a ''[[rāhui]]'' (hunting ban) was enforced in spring and summer to allow the species' numbers to recover.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> It was not until European settlement that the Huia was truly threatened.<ref name="Ref name="WS"/> Its numbers began to decline due to three factors; widespread [[deforestation]], introduction of [[introduced species|mammalian predators]] and overhunting. Another possible cause of extinction is disease,<ref>{{IUCN2006|assessors= BirdLife International |year=2004|id=9983|title=Heteralocha acutirostris|downloaded=11 May 2006}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as extinct</ref> but, like the extinctions of other New Zealand birds in the 19th century such as the [[Piopio]], the decline of the Huia was poorly studied. Because it spent a lot of time on the ground, the Huia would have been particularly vulnerable to mammalian predators, especially [[Black Rat|ship rat]]s, cats and [[mustelid]]s.<ref name="WS"/><ref name="FGBNZ"/> In the 19th century, massive deforestation occurred in the North Island, particularly in the lowlands of southern [[Hawkes Bay]], the [[Manawatu]] and the [[Wairarapa]] as land was cleared by European settlers for agriculture. The Huia was particularly vulnerable to this because it appeared it could only live in [[old growth forest]] where there were plenty of rotting trees filled with insect larvae. It seems it could not survive in regenerating [[secondary forest]]s.<ref name="WS"/><ref name="NZ Geo"/> Although the mountainous part of their former range was not deforested, the lowland forests of the valleys below, where Huia took refuge in winter and cold weather, were systematically destroyed.<ref name="NZ Geo"/><ref name="MBL"/> Habitat destruction and the predations of introduced species were problems faced by all New Zealand birds, but in addition the Huia faced massive pressures from hunting.
The Huia was sought after as [[taxidermy|mounted specimens]] by collectors and museums all over the world, who were interested in its pronounced sexual dimorphism and its beauty. The hunting of Huia for this purpose was initially done by naturalists. Austrian taxidermist Andreas Reischek took 212 pairs as specimens for the natural history museum in Vienna over a period of 10 years<ref name="NZ Geo"/> and Walter Buller collected 18 in just one of several expeditions to the Rimutaka ranges in 1883.<ref name="NZ Geo"/> However, others keen to profit from the decimation of the species soon joined in. Buller records that in 1883, a party of 11 Māori obtained 646 Huia skins from the forest between the [[Manawatu Gorge]] and Akitio.<Ref name="Buller"/><ref name="FGBNZ"/> Ultimately several thousand Huia were exported overseas as part of this trade.<ref name="WS"/>
By the late 1880s, both Māori and European settlers noticed a serious decline in Huia numbers and the chiefs of the Manawatu and the Wairarapa placed a [[rāhui]] on the Tararua range to prevent the killing of the bird.<ref name="WS"/> In February [[1892]], the Wild Birds Protection Act was amended to include the Huia, making it illegal to kill the bird; however, enforcement was not taken seriously.<ref name="WS"/> A recommendation was also made that island sanctuaries be set up for endangered native birds; however, the new bird sanctuaries, such as [[Kapiti Island]] and [[Little Barrier Island]], were never stocked with the Huia. A live pair destined to be transferred to Kapiti in 1893 was instead appropriated by Buller, who bent the law to gain permission to take them to [[England]].
Female Huia beaks have been known to be used in the creation of jewellery such as brooches.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=226654&coltype=history®no=gh005020 |title=Brooch - Collections Online|work=Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa website |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa |date=2004}}</ref>
The visit of the [[Duke of York|Duke]] and [[Duchess of York]], later [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]], to New Zealand in [[1901]] was celebrated throughout the land and at an official Māori welcome in [[Rotorua]] a guide took a Huia feather from her hair and placed it in the band of the Duke's hat as a token of respect.<ref name="WS"/> Soon many people in England and New Zealand wanted to emulate this royal fashion and wear Huia feathers in their hats. The price of feathers was soon pushed to one [[New Zealand pound]] each and some sold for as high as five pounds.<ref name="WS"/> Shooting season notices ceased listing the Huia as a protected species in 1901<ref name="NZ Geo"/> and a last-ditch attempt to reinforce government protection failed when the Solicitor General ruled that there was no law to protect feathers.<ref name="WS"/>
The last official sighting was on 28 December 1907 when W.W. Smith saw three birds in the [[Tararua Ranges]];<ref name="FGBNZ"/> however, unconfirmed reports after this date suggest that extinction came a little later. A man familiar with the species reported seeing three Huia in Gollans Valley behind York Bay (between Petone and [[Eastbourne, New Zealand|Eastbourne]], Wellington) on 28 December 1922. <ref name="WS">Morris, R. & Smith, H. (1995): ''Wild South: Saving New Zealand's Endangered Birds'' (2nd edition). Random House New Zealand</ref> Sightings of the Huia were reported here in 1912 and 1913 and this area of mixed beech (''[[Nothofagus]]'') and [[podocarp]] forest was well within the bird's former range. Despite this, [[Natural history|naturalist]]s from the [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|Dominion Museum]] in Wellington did not investigate the reports. The possibility of a small Huia population still existing in the Urewera ranges has been proposed by some researchers, but is considered highly unlikely. No recent expeditions have been mounted to find a living specimen. <ref>"Huia; The sacred Bird", Michael Szabo, New Zealand Geographic, Issue 20</ref><ref name="WS"/> The Huia had been little studied by naturalists before it was driven to extinction.
It is being studied for a possible attempt at cloning by the [[Hastings Boy's High School]]<ref>[http://nzsm.webcentre.co.nz/article2371.htm NZSM OnLine - Ten years of New Zealand Science Monthly magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9907/20/cloning.enn/ CNN - Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved - [[July 20]] [[1999]]<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and the Maori tribe [[Ngati Huia]] has agreed, in principle, to support this endeavour.<ref>[http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v17/n8/full/nbt0899_736c.html Access to articles : Nature Biotechnology<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://terranature.org/huia.htm TerraNature page on the Huia]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BulBird-t1-g1-t1-body-d0-d3.html Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand on the Huia]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis27zoollond Anatomy of head and neck in the Huia (''Heteralocha acutirostris'') with comparative notes on other Callaeidae scanned book]
* [http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail?lang=uk&id=42 3D view] of specimens RMNH 110.080, RMNH 110.081, RMNH 110.101, RMNH 110.102, RMNH 110.107, RMNH 110.108 and RMNH 110.109 at [[Naturalis]], Leiden (requires [[QuickTime]] browser plugin).
==Further reading==
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* Gill, B. & Martinson, P. (1991) ''New Zealand's Extinct Birds'' Random Century, Auckland ISBN 1-86941-147-1
* Tennyson, A. & Martinson, P. (2006) ''Extinct Birds of New Zealand'' Te Papa Press, Wellington ISBN 978-0-909010-218
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