TAME TUIS AND BELL-BIRDS.
A letter from E. N. Priest, schoolboy of Makirikiri, Wanganui, to the Forest and Bird Protection Society:— I found a bell-bird with its wing out of joint, and nursed the bird till it was right. When I was over on the river-bank two kingfishers came and sat on a bough not far from me, and a thrush flew up and commenced a fight. I have learned something, for I thought a kingfisher was afraid of thrushes, but they put up a good fight and drove the thrush off. My tuis and bell-birds are still with me. Four tuis and two bell-birds disappeared for a few weeks and returned with young ones. I have now seven tame tuis and six bell-birds. The latter are poor singers; for what reason I don’t know.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 35, 1 February 1935, Page 16
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135TAME TUIS AND BELL-BIRDS. Forest and Bird, Issue 35, 1 February 1935, Page 16
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