Tho reported increaso of mallard duck io not viewed with much satisfaction by some Otago sportsmen, who say that it really means tho extinction of the New Zealand grey duck. A Taieri farmer who has watchod tho habits of the imported mallard for some years states that it breeds very readily with the grey duck and that it is she dominating strain in. tho progeny. As a consequence, ho has found that thero arc now very few grey ducks in the Taieri Plain, and ho believes that one would now have to go to the l back country around Lakes Wakatipu and Wanaka to find tho pure New Zealand bird. Ho gives it as his considered opinion that in a few years tho New Zealand grey duck will be only a name and that it is apparently too late now to try to combat the position brought about by importing mallard to New Zealand-
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7196, 30 June 1933, Page 6
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