Bird lovers are delighted to hear the notes of the tui from the pohutukawas along the Takapuna shore, says the Auckland Herald, but this native can be more than a minstrel. The other day a tui and a thrush came down fighting on a lawn of the Mon Desir Hotel a few feet from where people were sitting. The struggle was short. When the tui flew off, the thrush lay dead with a deep beak-wound in the top of the head.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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