The career of one of the young ostriches presented the other day to the Newtown "Zoo" by the proprietors of tho ostrich farm at Piikckohe has unfortunately proved extremely short. The bird had scarcely been installed in its new quarters when i'i developed symptoms of poisoning, and it died soon afterwards. A post mortem examination revealed tho fact that it had eaten toad-stools of a poisonous variety. As (hero aro no toadstools growing in the ostrich enclosure at tho "Zoo," it is surmised that the bird must have eaten those which caused its death before arriving in Wellington,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1078, 17 March 1911, Page 4
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