GREY & MALLARD DUCKS
REPORTS OF HYBRIDISM DOUBTED VIEWS OF SPORTSMEN. “Anyone who says that hybridism takes place between grey and mallard ducks is talking through their hat,” observed Mr S. D. Geary at last night’s meeting of the North Wairarapa branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. He contended that the ducks of each breed kept apart but it was possible that the mallard and the domestic duck would interbreed. It was doing an injustice to the mallard, he said, to say that it crossed with the native grey duck. The mallard flew higher than the grey duck and was a better sporting proposition as it did not decoy so easily. Mr F. C. Brockett said that a prize had once been offered for anyone who could shoot a hybrid duck, a mallardgrey cross, in its natural haunts. The prize had never been claimed. Mr Geary said that of 240 ducks that he knew to have been shot in the Lake Wairarapa area there was not a single hybrid.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1943, Page 3
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