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Shannon News, 20 September 1929, Page 3

The 18th bulletin of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society is a small but informative booklet, containing several illustrations and various well-written articles. It also gives a list of native birds that have made New Zealand their habitat without the aid of man. Among these, sea-birds appear to predominate. The others include representatives of such wellknown families as the crow, cuckoo, owl. parrakeet, kingfisher, swift, wren, swallow, tomtit, robin, warbler, fantail, thrush, canary and lark. Four kinds of kiwi are mentioned, and nine varieties of duck. One of the pictures shows the takahe (Notornis hochstetteri). This is indeed a ran. bird, as only three of the species have been reported as having been seen. The body resembles that of a fowl, but the beak is large and powerful.