KINGFISHER AND GLASS PANE.
As ail illustration of the force with which kingfishers wing their flight throuffh the air (says (ho Auckland
"Star"), and the amount of vitality which those beautiful birds possess, a resident of Whangarei states that while engaged in painting a house he heard tho crash of a window clo:-o to where he was working. I"poii examination he discovered dial; a kingfisher had flown clean through a window pane, and was silling quite unhurt, but apparently a littlo dazed, oil tho other side. The attention of ono of th-o ladies in tho house was drawn to what had occurred, and she stated that it was not the first time that a kingfisher had performed the samo feat
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 6
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120KINGFISHER AND GLASS PANE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 6
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