New Zealand Will Hear Song of Nightingale

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 1

New Zealand Will Hear Song of Nightingale

Novelist Sends Pairs for Barrier Sanctuary BIRDS MAY RETURN HOME By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON 1 , Wed. Hoping the birds settle down in New Zealand’s bird sanctuary on the Little Barrier Island, Mr. Angus Wilson is sailing on Friday, via America, with two pairs of nightingales. He is specially equipped with cages and special feed, consisting of ants’ eggs, dried flies and honey supplied from the London Zoo. The birds are the gift of the novelist, Mr. David Garnett, who says that at the first sign of frost the nightingales migrate from England to Africa. The ones he is sending to New Zealand may migrate in winter time to Australia, but he is just afraid that these naturally homesick birds may find their way from Australia to India, to Persia, and back to their beloved Surrey w’oods.—A. and N.Z. David Garnett, the author, is 35 years of age. He studied in the Royal College of Science at South Kensington, and discovered a new species of mushroom. His publications include “A Man in the Zoo” and “Lady Fox.” Mr. Angus Wilson is an Aucklander, who has been engaged in journalistic work in England. His mother is Mrs. Gilbert Wilson, of Kohimarama.