AUCKLAND ZOO
ADDITIONAL ACQUISITIONS.
AUCKLAND, June 10. A consignment of animals and birds for the Auckland Zoo is being brought from Calcutta by the steamer QuerimOa due abut January 29.
The shipment is from th e Alipore Zoo Calcutta. The animals consist oi one pair of leopards and one pair of striped hyenas. The Zoo at present has two male black 'leopards, biif it has been without either hyenas or the ordinary variety of leopards for some time past. The birds consist of 18 bulbuls in three different varieties, 14 blossomheaded .pan'akeejfs, four demoiselle cranes and two adjutant storks. The Zoo already possesses some bulbuls, -although not of the varieties listed. They a're ric,hly-ooloured ,fruit-eating birds •with a melodious whistle, and, are mentioned as often in Oriental poetry as flip nightingale is in English. The demoiselle cranes will provide companionship for one now in the Zoo, It is expected that the adjutant storks, which are large, ungainly birds, will prove most amusing to visitors. The Zoo has not possessed any of them up to the present.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1935, Page 6
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176AUCKLAND ZOO Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1935, Page 6
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