MEET MR MUTTON-BlßD.—Quite a traveller, this fellow. He spends his time rearing a family at Stewart Island, and then flies away to the Sea of Okhotsk, for the warm season, leaving his children to follow him. The young birds are killed by the Maoris and are a great table delicacy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 17
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50MEET MR MUTTON-BIRD.—Quite a traveller, this fellow. He spends his time rearing a family at Stewart Island, and then flies away to the Sea of Okhotsk, for the warm season, leaving his children to follow him. The young birds are killed by the Maoris and are a great table delicacy. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 17
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