MOOSE IN SOUTHLAND

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 7

MOOSE IN SOUTHLAND

RANGER (GETS PHOTOGRAPHS

THE RARE NOTORNIS SEEN.

(IT IELIOEAPH.—PRBSE ASSOCIATION.}

INVERCARGILL, 26th January.

The Southland Acclimatisation Society received a telegram., yesterday from Ranger C. J. Evans that he had_ secured photographs of moose, also a bird believed to be a notornis. Mr. Evans is at present engaged investigating, the acclimatisation of moose in the country surrounding Doubtful Sound. The moose were liberated on 24th February, 1910, and were; imported, from Western Cana,da. This is the first concrete evidence that the moose have become acclimatised, though traces have been seen p-revidusly. .These are the only moose in the Southern Hemisphere. Should the second portion of the telegram be correct, it will prove that, the notornis is not extinct. Only four specimens of the bird have ever .been, found, three of these being in the Fiord district. The last/ capture was made about 25 years ago. Mr. Evans is in the hinterland "of the Sounds district, and the message has apparently been sent overland with tourists.