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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7405, 22 September 1902, Page 3

The Aparima took on boatd at Calcutta 26 Pekin robins, consigned by Mr Finn, deputy-curator ot the Calcutta Museum, to Mr A- Bathgate, Dunedin. The little birds, which aro about the size of^an ordinary robin and have yellow plumage, did not thrive very well on the voyage, and began to dio oft in twos and. threes shortly after /caving India, "By 'th? tiinb Albany' was reached there were only a dozen left, and thpse were all found dead the nest mortlng, after a hard frost. It is not yet certain that, even had the birds arrived safely tbey would havo been allowed to land. The Department ot Agriculture submitted to acclimatisation' socier"l >|* throughout the colony the Otago Society's request for permission to introduce them, and opihibn T«is divided as to- the advisability g'f granting such permission. It is perhaps well that none should have ar-rived-before this important point .wns settledj, ." .