PECULIAR GAME-BIRD
VISITOR TO MATAMATA From Our Own Correspondent MORRINSVILLE, Today. A peculiar game-bird has made its appearance on the property of Mr. T. H. Prowse, Matamata. The bird is slightly smaller than a pigeon, has a long eel-shaped heatl and neck with golden feathers on the breast, while its tail is somewhat lengthy and about two inches wide. The bird is fairly tame and cheeky, and has been frequenting Mr. Prowse’s orchard for some days. Though water and grain have been placed for it, so far there is no indication that the stranger is helping itself to the food offered. Mr. Prowse has had good experience of game-birds, but cannot place this specimen, w r hich has the ways of a pheasant, but looks like an impossible cross between that bird and a sparrowhawk.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 6
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135PECULIAR GAME-BIRD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 6
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