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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 May 1915, Page 3

j As evidence of the prolific way in i which the imported mallard duck multiplies, the ranger to the .South Canter--1 bury Acclimatisation Society, when on ; the rounds of the swamp and creeks, I lately found three mallards siting, this ' late in the season. They'had eighteen | twenty-two • and thirty-tour eggs in i their respective nests. He has also ; under his eye at the present time a ! mallard with eight ducklings and an- ! other with eleven. All the hirds are : in their wild state. There are a great many of these duckw about now [ as a result of the very complete way i in which the South Canterbury Ac- | climatisation Society established them I Chri.schurch Star.