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Mutton birds, said Mr Edgar Stead, the Canterbury ornithologist, in a lecture given in Auckland, were the young of the sombre shearwater petrel, and when they were about three months old the Maoris went down to collect thorn. They were extraordinarily fat at that stage, weighing about 3±lb, whereas the adult bird weighed only IJlb to IJlb. When the parent birds had fattened up the young to that stage they went' away and left them to fine down until they were thin enough to fly. From a small island of less than 100 acres a "crop" of 11,500 mutton birds had been taken during the past season. Waiting to prey on the mutton birds or other small birds was the skua gull These gulls for part of the year at any rate fed almost entirely on petrels, and the young skuas were almost as ferocious as their parents. Two of the lecturer's friends wer* struck abflut the head by these gulls.

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