MORTALITY OF HAWKS AND LARKS.
COMET'S INFLUENCE SUSPECTED. (By Tolegraph.-SpcciiU Correspondent.) Wanganui, .Tune 28. A pettier living on (lie i'arapara Road, some distance inland of Wauganui, re|wrts to tho !ical press that one day alter the passage of the earth through tho tail of llaller's comet he was out mustering, and was astonished to find great numbers of hawks and larks, especially the latter, lying on the ground, ajnl evidently dead only a few hours. As these are high-flying birds, he suggests that their fate'was due to tho Influence, of the gas in the comet's tail, n-hich, while not affecting the dense atmosphere near tho earth's surface, may have had some effect on the more rarificd air which such birds reach in their flights.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 855, 29 June 1910, Page 4
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124MORTALITY OF HAWKS AND LARKS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 855, 29 June 1910, Page 4
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