ACCLIMATISATION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3349, 10 April 1868, Page 4

ACCLIMATISATION.

Wlttllk Woto, H>q., W ho .eturnel to Auckland «n April 2 id the &.«. • Lord uhley • after a visit to were orteftUfyjtouiWl'for tlie voWe ttefrifa-nkma 2™s*]}*™'? taWem^tonf wherTthey wfrS trauahlpped w the ' Lord A.hley ' and on arrival Amortisation Society. grounds. V The' Allowing 5! *T\ re ? l X ed «7-*B«Hm pheawnt.. 2 man£2 1 l&P-J 10 * 16 P^tridges, 22 star. SMJ"! 0 ,!?^ thruahen, 30 linnet. »nd pi 5k • r ' hh * Vio g experienced remarkably fine weather tight throughout the rovage from England. This .route m admitably adapted for bringing birds out from the old country, it being proved so by the rr 1 *^!! 8 ™ 8 " . bf mortality amongst the aWe, viz. : 6 partHdge. died out of 22, 2 darlings out of 24, 8 575 7 t7i! out^ f ?4 » 6 lion «'« «d chaffinches out of a 'i-^i ■* m P no "' nts » mandarin and Carolina •& b^itbirdB, and thrushes have arrived without Ml :', T S. - Jonas held a kale ton April 4of English Dilil< Ac.i on Dehalfhf the Acolim»ti.-atioa Society, fh^sale w«« attended by many of our enterprising i **^*2' *^° w *K e prepared to conform with the °° na & on « f pn r which the birds were offered for sale by thi Society; >ii., that the birds should be let loose 1 blithe 1 purdhafcer in hid own district. The foUowin^birds wire-aold 1 !- 30 skylarks! £2 165., and W#wlingB,,£l clog., c 10g., W. J. Taylor. Taraaki ; 40 chaffinches, £1, and 24 grey linnet* £1 17». 6d., L. B. UWen; B,,8om ; 2 pairs Australian quail, £l t C. Westrupp, Poverty Bay ; 12 green linnets. £1 125., •• Bemuera; 20 blabkbirds »nd thrushes, £5 10 a., C. J. IVylor, Tamaki; 12 Rookhampton ■pvrows, 17», 6d., L. B. Owen, Epsom ; English pneasants, £8, C. Westrupp, Poverty Bay. We are informed by the-hon. sec' of the Acolimatisation Society that bis Excellency Sir George F. Bowen, who has from his first arrival in Auckland evinced the warmest interest in the Society's operation; has kindly consented to become the patron of the same.