"NO RARE BIRDS."

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18659, 7 April 1926, Page 8

"NO RARE BIRDS."

FRANCE EXPEDITION, jf i LIST OF SPECIMENS TAlßft&l (smut to "tbs note.") WELLINGTON, April 1 *,3 A report which the Minuter of I|vn ternal Affairs has received from Mr "wt 3 B. B. Oliver, of the Dominion Msss«s*t4f states that no rare birds were titkm**J by the expedition that set sail fe qfajjjj schooner France to collect for the Wk& 'J ney collection in the National Vsse*sJT& of Art and History in New York, fitajj only islands on which Mr B|jjt_l& landed were the Antipodes, tS#"£j Bounties, Pitt Island, and some ■tsst'Jg islands off the Chathams. No U*tsM'>2j was made on Chatham. Island ifanflf ffi*js The birds collected were as foSkVw.<tJ (the words in inverted comma* those used by Mr Archey in his x«gojj2*i| on the birds of the Southern lutssafcl aud the Chatham Islands, paMisMl ifeSS the "Records of the QftatttMtf^ Land Birds—Pied fanUU (CfcailattJl Islands), "Frequent," 4; pied <s3S.l| catcher, 1; Antipodes Island panan*j|f|9 "Fairly Common," 3; rea-frss4eM§ parrakcet (Chatham Island), "Ttir>j)|LM ing," •*; red-fronted parrakeet (aiflii podes Island), '' Fairly' Common,** tyM tui (Chatham Island), "Common,** iffl pipit (Antipodes Island), "ConuassVill 4; pipit (Chatham Island), "Alsss|fl dant," 4; sand plover, '' Common,** I ©™ snipe (Antipodes Islands), "Been sjlf9 Captain Bollons," 2; tomtit (CkatlitnS Islands), "Frequent," 4; Chatham s§9 lands warbler, "Common," 4; tsiflH Sea Birds—ln all, 253 sen birssvswil taken, as follows:—Bounty Mm mollyhawk, 10; Snares Island sMnTJjjfl hawk, 10; sooty albatross, "■ TTijsMfl ing albatross, 4; gannet, 10} ssn aaSlli 10; big crested penguin, It; IjfeßH penguin, 6; tufted penguin, tj wksj§|« fiippered penguin, 4; brown »lwMitmnnM| 20; capo pigeon, 6; Cook's nats»l*§flfl diving petrel, 2; grey-fieed giant petrel, 5; silver-grey pfflnk, WM whalobird, 20; whalehird white-faced storm petrel, 18; tkmH headed petrel, 7; Chatham Islands ttHH ; 10; long-tailed shearwater, footed shearwater, 20; Maek-Jrf||B[ tern, 4; white-fronted tern, 18; |H Unprotected Birds. 19 The following specimens of nfasj|l§flj species not included in tht mUhH of' the Animals Protection Q||kljKH| were collected:—Bounty l<hM ! -MM 12; spotted shag, 20; pied aMJ|§HH mutton bird, 15; blaekbseksd WJIBB white-eye, 2; grey albattOf*, 15i AifH skua, 1; total, 9L ' ''ffflH la regard to birds taken on seas Mr Oliver says: w specimens of sea birds eejbatai ~ r gHH ing the France expeditkai «!* JjiMfl on the high seas, that is, DSjoifIJHHI miles from land, Mr .Beck ntsmH this to mean three miles fymfflK/M coast, including the Beems a liberal Beck has discovered titan* IPM^H .that some sea birds Zealand migrate ing season as far ana as far northward, Even in the bracding season, «M faced petrel was tafia SDO New Zealand. Thus it tyHMHsssssl New Zealand breeding IHHfflHi -been taken'in almost'WMsssbsbsM Pacific, so that tn»' ssWMssl panying this report « I <i | H||^| | the total nnmber of bleeding sea birds France expedition. J '!;! fjlmH - as> BseW'fa^lfnfc* 5 "- '<Mr Book claims that, foreign vessel, he is entitled cay birds off the New so- long as he does not kut three miles of land, afterwards land them in SMHlbbbbbb! He quotes the ess** of sealing off the coast of | cess which he has aetsjibßassßSßsssssi "A point raised of Customs wis vessel within New ZesJsMfJssswMssssl Specimens of Slew Bis«fcs«§|||Hß|| birds taken on the r WsyPJ|CTW| arguing from' the sells arriving in New Zeal—fllMHHß consigned to • port hoJHasij'gssssasssM -land, th* collector cargo would not to examine tinma New *ZeatauL' I that it was an -act of Beck's part to'-allov the birds o(^m,^^4l^l|^HHHh