Y.W.C.A. LECTURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1855, 15 September 1913, Page 2

Y.W.C.A. LECTURE.

_$ Wonderful lantern slides illustrated a most interesting lecturo on "New Zealand Animals, delivered at the Y.W.C.A. on Saturday night by Mr. Termnnt, ■who, before ft largo audienco, described bis personal reminiscences of animals and birds which lie had mot. Amongst those which he illustrated and described were ( th« petrel; the great albatross nesting on tlio_ Auckland ; Isles, the egg being laid in January ' and tho young birdl being loft on the nest in March until tho following sprang, when' tho mother drives it off tho nest in order to lay another egg, though the youngster looks four times the size of its parent; the tuatara lizard, which is now estinot on tho mainland and which is more closelv related to tho crocodile than tlie lizard; the cormorant, or shag, which the Chinese and Japanese us 3 for fishing; the white heron, the most beautiful nativo bird, now almost extinct; the ring-ta.iled ouckoo, which arrives from New Guinea about now and returns in March or April; tho stitch birds, wliich aro only found on tho Great Barrier Islands; the vegetable caterpillar ; tlie Maori hen; tho plover, which' migrates from the East Indian Islands; the. New Zealand bush and harrier hawk; and the Australian laughing jackass, or kingfisher.