■ "I had the misfortune after brc'e.ling 18 pheasants and liberating them to see hawks take three of them within half an hour," remarked Mr Nichbll, of Wairarapa, at a meeting ox' the Wellington Acclimatisation Society the other evening. He said the pheasants were bred in open pens, and got used to the hawks. When they wera liberated they did not seem to re'alise that they no longer had the protection of the pens. The same speaker mentioned a. most unfair and unsportsmanlike method of taking quail that had come under his notice. The persons concerned had used thistle seed threaded with horsehair, which was nipped off about an eighth of an inch from the seed. This stuck in the quails' necks. For the few that were taken many were killed and never recovered.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 8
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