The cunning of the grey duck was commented on by Mr. Edgar F. Steid recently at a meeting of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Mr. Stead stated, reports the Press, that there was no game in New Zealand which scented danger like the bird in question, and when the shooting season commenced it quickly changed its quarters to some small lagoon in the vicinity of which shooting was not allowed, and whore the duck was out of danger.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 7
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