Speeding through the air at 60 miles an hour, the shining cuckoo will shortly be winging its way to New Zealand from its winter refuge in the Solomon Islands. The tiny bird will fly day and night, and its call will- be heard any day now, said Mr. R. A. Falla, ornithologist to the Atickland War Memorial Museum, in an address on the flight of birds.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 5
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