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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21639, 25 November 1935, Page 18

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SPECIAL EXHIBIT AT MCSWW Colour variations in binds fltfttf9H due to one or more of several c|HH| to differences in climate as one region and another, to the'•MHß appearance or disappearance tfVH factor governing the colour paftesliHH to the absence of pigment. TEbaJHBK , condition produces those |as albinos. Albinism is by "orifHH uncommon and may be partial plete. The museum of both kinds of albinism, special exhibit this week contaittFMM specimens of complete albinism ; 3HM in the native lark and the tavMHH Very many varieties of kaka awiiiil record, a good example being «Mi An authority on native birds nct'lßßf is aware of the recorded colour eties of kaka, but is also aware of <«■■ may be called local races in wSB striking, but detailed, cur between birds from one tQOMH and another. The normal kaka tMJIHi exhibit is said to belong to a sKfIH form peculiar to Canterbury. The pukeko has normally a-'iH—-defined and well pigmented cototaffiWg tern, but occasional albinos havelMH. found, as well as pigmented but hH forms. The exhibit shows one wS&m latter in which there is a mark iilW 1 tion of pigment in the front ofMH oo&y, producing a striking and nHB The long-tailed cuckoo visit* M Zealand from about October MM end of January, from the warm MMBf of the South Pacific Noticeable cHHS variations are apparently rare."Jgg albino is an excellent example =«rne may be said about the 3JHH