Much absorbed in plucking at pret-tily-coloured flowers, a bird of strange appearance was seen in a Belmont gar. den (says the Auckland ‘'Star”). It was apparently of tame habits, and remained for some time close to the house. From inside a gardener watched if. The russet-brown, deepening into chestnut, of its plumage, reminded him of the favourite songbird of England, the nightingale, and he recognised it as a young one. During last year a pair of nightingales was brought out Iron: England by an Aucklander and released in the Kohimarama district. In England the nest is made in May, and the young are hatched in June, but it is thought that the breeding would be much later in the year in Auckland, for season'! reasons.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 119, 17 February 1928, Page 4
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