THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY BIRD IN THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4398, 20 April 1893, Page 3

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY BIRD IN THE WORLD.

The most extraordinary bird in' the wrlWkthpkiwi, Bawl isnot the most extraordinary bird seen by visitors in . the : Zoo, because they never see it, The kiwi buries itself asleep all d»y and only comes out in tbo night; to demolish an unpleasant and: inconvenient proverb, The kiwi is the latest' of all birds but patches the most worms. For this let us honor tho kiwi, and burl him in the face of the early risers.

Ho stamps about the ground in the dark night, and theworm beingnaturally a fool as tkeprovorb demonstrates comes up to investigate, and is at M early rising for ever, astog no wings (unless you coudi b uit of cartilage an inch or bo long, bsiied under tbo down), has the appearance of running about vith Jiis bands in bis pockots because of the And being covered with something moroliko hair than feathers, is a deal more like a rat than a bird of any sort. Indeed I don't beliovo the kiwi himself hi\s altogether made up his mind which to be, Before he decides ho will probably become extinct. Any glimpse his friends have of , him hero is short, Suddenly brought out into the day, ho stands for a moment, and blinks; then be puts his beak up and his legs apart, and there is a black dtreak and a heap of straw, where it vanisbee.—Btraad Magazine, I . j