THE AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—ln your issue of July 26 you publish an indictment of the "Australian Magpie" by Mr. Frank Willis—a member of the council of tho Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The case against this bird is black indeed, and one wonders why it was introduced, and why it is still protected to carry on its destruction of our native bird-life. In "The Illustrated London .Nrivs" of ,1 line 10 there is an artivlo on this binl (Oyimiorhinu tibieen) by W. P. Pycrnft, F. 2.5., thu eminent naturalist, in which he says:—"lt has a most varied diet, including mice, young birds, aud lizards, a* well as ius-cefp. Moreover it impales ith victim after the manner of the true shrikeF."
In this district the magpies have increased tremendously during the last feuyears, while the number of our native: birds has as markedly diminished.—l am, etc., /
HELEN lIARDWICKE-SMITII, Belmont. July 27.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1933, Page 6
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151THE AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1933, Page 6
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