COMMON OPOSSUM.
(Extract from “Wild Life in New Zealand,” Part I.—Mammalia By Hon. Geo. M. Thomson, M.L.C., F.L.S., F.N.Z.lnst.)
These animals are not natives of New Zealand. Thev were first brought to this country from Australia about sixty years ago. and weie liberated near Riverton. Later importations have frequently been made, both private individuals and acclimatisation societies introducing them. Thus the Auckland Society and Sir George Grey brought a considerable number from Australia between 1869 and 1876, and Kawau at one time was overrun with them. The Wellington Society liberated nineteen Tasmanian black opossums in the ranges behind Paraparaumu in 1892; and the Otago Society got twelve silver-grey opossums from Gippsand m 1895, and liberated them in the Catlin’s district. They have increased greatly in most wooded parts of the Dominion..
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Forest and Bird, Issue 21, 1 July 1930, Page 16
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131COMMON OPOSSUM. Forest and Bird, Issue 21, 1 July 1930, Page 16
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