PIED STILTS.
SHOT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.. ;, (By TcUeraph-Press Association-Copyright.) ; 1 iSydnoy,' October, li. . A piir of Now Zealand pied stilts were shot by! a Mudgco sportstoan. ' Hβ. is" perplexed; as to;how 1 'tfa6;.,birds reached.;the..looaH^r.;' }\ .'' ' ' [A reference to' Duller's. "birds' of New Zet land , ' discloses ,tho iact that the pied, or whiteheaded stilt. (plover)—"Hunantopus Loucpcephalus"—is', .'.'comparatively; common ". in.--'the middle .and southern'portions of New' Zealand -. .',V:.. appears ito^bb- also,-'widely..distributed over the Continent :of Australia/' .The species is ,described' by'Gould in his "Birds ,of Australia." Apparently; the. birds "are. not migratory ;in the' fullest eense of the word, for, says Duller,: they ;,"do:'.not-.-,appear.;. to■',■ leayo tho country, but perfp'rhi 6ome. soH of; tiiigration'. disappear from ■■the Napier .marslics."J.'., . ■■•:■ .-.'., ' .. .-,-.:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 7
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116PIED STILTS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 7
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