A Marlborough sealer who has had considerable, experience with keas on such back-couniry runs as the Molesworth, speaking to an Express representative, stated that he had seen the birds feasting in numbers cjn dead sheep, but has " never '"noticed them attack a live animal. He has no doubt that they are carnivorous, as he once kept a time kea when out mustering, which he used to feed on sheeps' kidney. On one occasion fte stioi a couple of stags in kea couDtry. and on rexurniiog for on*, of the h?ad* which he had been' compelled to leave found th%t the carcases had been stripped clean of flesh by an immense mob at keas.
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Otaki Mail, 16 October 1922, Page 3
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113Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Otaki Mail, 16 October 1922, Page 3
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