THE "KEA" LEGEND.
HAS THE BIRD BEEN WRONGED?
(For Press Association)
WELLINGTON, November 5. As it is generally supposed that the kea parrot attacks living sheep a war of extermination 'has 'been carried on against the luckless bird. There seems to be a dou'tot as to whether there is any truth in the stories of <the bird's misdeeds. At a meeting of the Philosophical Society one scientific authority after another declared that after years of careful investigation he had been unable to discover a shred of evidence in support of the alleged fact, every speaker acquainted with the bird and with the region it inhaibits expressing complete disbelief of the story. Curiously enough the investigators do riot seem hitherbo to 'have compared notes on the subject. Their enquiries (have been conducted indefinitely, but lhare invariably led to the same conclusion. If the kea legend has not been exploded it has been seriously disoredlited, and it is euggesited that the County Councils should consider tihe advisafoleness of stopping subsidies until there is unimpeachable evidence, of the prediatory dhairacter of the bird.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12646, 6 November 1905, Page 5
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180THE "KEA" LEGEND. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12646, 6 November 1905, Page 5
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