PARROQUETS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7412, 1 December 1884, Page 6

PARROQUETS.

TO TIIE JUjITOE. There t» nothing like doing a thing in time, mid, iu it Li easy to see wc an* going to have a plague of green parroquets again, could not somul’ning be done at once to kill off j thin pest ? In another month they will hi* down here in hundreds, and what little fruit harf e#ea|>od til* 1 late frOrits, will he destroyed lung before it has ft chance to ripen. T!u*se little birds Hy in H'wrks, and all settle on one trw, currant, g-j- 'acberry, or oherrv, and start and nip off all the fruit- In fact, they strip every tarry from one tree R-lotv they move on to the next, and, as they fly in flocks of from eight to thirty or forty, they won do immense damage. One man yesterday .-hot tnvnty-tw<» with <»ru- cartridgx’ in a eurrant bush. Now, if all fanners, and unyliody who luvs large plantations, would alh,w, ur even invite, jieople Ui sluvit them, in they are plump, dtdieious little birds, and at this season us fat av h-utler, the leave wuuld gladly R* taken by lots of people who are only too glad to bavi-lhe chanee of sbu-itmg. Be«id*T/, why not shoot them forisixirt. Two parties alio -ting on- 1 against aii«Uicr in ft Large covert nadd have a very jolly day’s sport. But, mark my word, if something isn’t done, we will have them in millions, because in another week or two they will he all nesting, alien they will ho not worth uhooting, and invisible to slmot, and after a brief retirement will n-appear in quadrupled numbor*.—l am, Ac., A.U.