ACCLIMATISED SKYLARKS.
To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir —There are very few who are not familiar with the line Cvelum, non animum, mutant qui trans mare currunt, the meaning of which, as is pretty well known, is that those who travel experience a change only in the scenery around them, and not in tbeir minds or dispositions. However much this may apply to human being?, it certainly is not the case with the birds that we have Knported from England, a pair of skylarks that had been caught and kept in a cage by a gentleman in Nelson having bred while in confinement. This, I believe, is a thing hitherto unknown to naturalists, and I therefore ask you to give publication to it, as being well worth recording. Another change that has come over the habits of these birds consequent upon their transportation to the antipodes of their native country is also deserving of mention, namely, that they have been known, iu more instances than one, to pour forth their melodious songs, while sitting upon a fence. I am unaware whether this peculiarity has been noticed in any other province but this; if not, it will be gratifying to those who delight in applying the term " Sleepy Hollow" to Nelson, to know that such is the fact here. I am, &c, Avis.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 298, 18 December 1871, Page 2
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225ACCLIMATISED SKYLARKS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 298, 18 December 1871, Page 2
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