SENSITIVE PHEASANTS
BIRDS GIYE WARNING OF YERY SMALL •QUAKES. Christchurch, Monday. The Hawke's Bay pheasants which, aceording to Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., announced the approach of last week's earthquake, were only runnning true to pheasant forxn, a member of the staff of the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory told a Sun reporter., The late Dr. Orxnori, a famous Japanese seismologiht, once wrc/te a paper on "Pheasaxits as Seismometers." He had made careful investigations and found that pheasants, some other birds, axid horses, dffected the small preliminary xnovexxxents of the big 'quake before hurnan beings did. In sensitivity, they rate somewhere between seismographs and huxnan beings. The magnetic instruments at the Amberley Observatory showed quite a number of minor tremors before the main shake. It would have been some of these that set Mr. Iloward's pheasants whining. Saturday's shake, described as quite a severe aftershock, of the typa nearly always experienced after a hig 'quake, produced a good record at the Christchurch Observatory.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 340, 29 September 1932, Page 6
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161SENSITIVE PHEASANTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 340, 29 September 1932, Page 6
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