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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 10

In spite of the attention of llyfishermen and others who find its feathers particularly suitable for making trout flies, the native bittern, or matuku, is apparently not decreasing in numbers in the Rotorua district. A resident recently reported that ill a large patch of raupo he put up no fewer than 44 bitterns, the largest number he remembered having seen together in an extensive experience of wild life. In other parts of the district also reports indicate that the numbers of these birds are increasing.