A RARE BIRD.
[by telegraph.— association.] , Dd/xedin, Monday. The specimen of Notomis recently exhibited at a meeting of the Otugo Institute has now been preserved and set up, and being on view at the museum has attracted considerable attention. Dr. Benliam says this fourth specimen is a female, and that it agrees in size and colouration with the specimen in the Dresden Museum. What the ultimate destination of the bird will be is at present unknown. The owner has allowed it to be exhibited here.but it will be sent to him after a few days. Dr Benham was able to oxamino all the internal organs. He found the stomach and intestines filled with a kind of grass cut into length of Jin to Jin. Although thoroughly healthy, there was no fat in the body, and Dr. Benliam thinks the bird was driven from high ground by stress of weather. The beak, he thinks, is needlessly iiowerful for merely cutting up grass.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10838, 23 August 1898, Page 5
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