BIRDS FOR ZOO
A N.Z. COLLECTION Some months ago the City Council requested the Parks Comniitttee, on the suggestion of Cr. Crookes, to endeavour to secure a collection, for the Zoological Gardens, of representatives of the whole of the New Zealand indigenous birds. The Internal Affairs Department lias agreed to co-operate. As a result officers of the museum, when out collecting, will endeavour to catch live samples of native birds. A number of varieties will not, however, find their way to the Zoo. the director of the Dominion Museum declining to issue a warrant allowing them to be taken. The birds not to be ta ten from the bush will include thrushes, saddlebacks, some of the rails, and other rare birds. Nor will there be any captivity V for petrels, which, though easily obtainable, do not survive captivity.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 12
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138BIRDS FOR ZOO Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 12
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