NATURE NOTES
THE GREY WARBLER OR RIRO-RIRO . t i Heard more often than, seen, the j grey warbler, one of New Zealand's: most charming little birds, pours; but its sweet trilling song during I the greater part of, the year in all | parts of the country. Riro-riro the Maoris call it, perhaps from its song, which is more a trill with clear distinct notes than a Avarble. She lays: five or six small eggs (Mirce-quarters of an inch long sometimes pure white, and sometimes Hushed with a- tinge of pink and l'recklcd with reddish spots at the bx-oad end.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 47, 12 February 1943, Page 6
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99NATURE NOTES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 47, 12 February 1943, Page 6
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