TUATARA LIZARDS BECOMING SCARCE.
Tuatnra lizards, which were once plentiful on Stephen's Island, are getting .scarcer year by year, said the keeper of the lighthouse to a Post reporter. Wild cats were responsible for the whole sale slaughter of the old-fashioned suarians, but the slayers lliemcshcs were soon subjected to an annihilating persecu-* | lion. "We have killed nearly all the eats." .stated the keeper. "We must have destroyed three or four hundred of them with dogs and guns during the past year or two. We .seldom see n cat about now." The plague of en's was brought about by the progeny of one puss, brought to tbe island by on.« ( of the keepers. The eats used to vary ,' their tuatara diet by feasting upon dove j petrels whieh came ashore in IhnusanN . !tones,.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 4
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133TUATARA LIZARDS BECOMING SCARCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 4
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