The Native Pigeon.
(To the Editor.) Sik, —I see in the Standard this evening a statement made by Mr E.. C. Bruce at the annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society in Wellington that he had never seen a native pigeon's nest, nor had he ever heard of one being found in the country. Well, I tound one once while working on liis father's property, near Turakina, when I was a boy. It was built in a tree growing in a deep gully. The nest was built of dry manuka sticks. It had one egg in it. The egg was white, and about the size of a small fowl's egg. The mother bird was hovering about at the time, bnt she never hatched anything out. I think I disturbed her. I have been told that up at Fitzherbert East, in a certain gully, great numbers of pigeons' nests were found by some bushfellers, though I never saw them myself.— I am, etc., A. Hon'ore, Tiritea, May 23, 1906.'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8197, 25 May 1906, Page 7
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167The Native Pigeon. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8197, 25 May 1906, Page 7
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