CARGO OF 1,500 BIRDS.
LONDON, June 2. Fifteen hundred gorgeously coloured birds valued at £5,000 wore landed at Southampton from the Union-Castle liner. Balmoral Castle yesterday after a voyage of 0,5(10 miles from U-e jungles of South Africa. They included several varieties never seen in England before, which will in all probability be handed to the Zoo. Among them are three sun birds of brilliant lino, and these, in the absence of the nectar which forms theii diet in the jungle were fed on malted milk and honey.
Three species making their first appearance in England were the blacksmith plover, so called from its call, which resembles notes struck on an anvil ; the bronzo-tving courser, which is claimed to be able to run faster along the ground than a horse at full gallop, and tlio white-fronted bee-eater, a. bird similar to the swallow but with -a strikingly long beak. The birds were brought over by Air C. S. AYebb, of Pretoria.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1926, Page 1
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161CARGO OF 1,500 BIRDS. Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1926, Page 1
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