SEED DISTRIBUTION BY BIRDS.
(By L. W. McCaskill.)
The experiments at the Christchurch Teachers’ Training College have been continued. The wax-eyes were fed on syrup from May to August. The droppings on the food tray were sown in sterilised soil in September last and yielded the following seedlings: Cordyline australis , (Cabbage-tree) 132, Benthamia fragifera (Himalayan Strawberry-tree) 14, Cotoneaster serotina 5, asparagus 1. Total 152.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 57, 1 August 1940, Page 3
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64SEED DISTRIBUTION BY BIRDS. Forest and Bird, Issue 57, 1 August 1940, Page 3
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