INTERESTING SPECIMENS
:V . ; CAPTURED IN PAPUA. i ' : ;^ Br Tclcirrnih-PiTrt? Association-Copyright ■;; V,- (Rec.July'lo; 3 p.m.) •: '■'■'•'■'■. vV:;;Sydney, July 10. Mr. Meek, collector in Papua for the jEton/-'Walter.'!Bothscliild's museum, is visiting Sydney.- Amongst-tho-prizes captured by'him is the largest 'butterfly in tho' worldj 'known as Triodes Alex-' ' andre.. It is- llf inches across the', wings and. is/such a,' high'flier-that itriias to be'.shot..'with a. gun;, also a Crown pigeon, which is: of the >izo of a hen turkey, and lives on'the ground.— . - : -
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2199, 11 July 1914, Page 5
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77INTERESTING SPECIMENS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2199, 11 July 1914, Page 5
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