MUCH-TRAVELLED PIGEONS.
—-—♦— ■. . 1 ALIGHT ON R.M.S. RUAHINE. Two Now Zealand homing pigeons havo just finished an interesting journey. .When the Neiv Zealand Shipping Company's mail steamer Euahino was :150 miles out from Wellington, homeward bound on November 17 of last year, the dcck winchmau, J tunes < Spiers, noticed two -pigeon* Hying overhead. They were being rapidly overhauled by two big albatrosses, and tho raco was a good one. Soon, however, the two land birds began to tiro, and in a short space of - time both of them fell 011 the ileck exhausted, but free from their pursuers. Mr. Spiers, who has been waiting for the inevitable, to happen, secured the birds, and has kept them since. .•When tho Huahine arrived at Wellington from London yesterday a reporter saw ,t,li3 birds in a cage looking none tho worso for their 2G,000-mile journey., On examination, it was sr-en that there was a ring round a leg of each bird,-and 0110 was marked W." 1011 No. 129 and the-other JNYP; 1910 No. 107.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1690, 5 March 1913, Page 6
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170MUCH-TRAVELLED PIGEONS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1690, 5 March 1913, Page 6
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