NEW ZEALAND BIRDS.
[by TELEGRAPH.PRESS association.] Christchurch, Sunday. Representatives of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute and Canterbury Acclimatisation Society . have made a number of recommendations for amending the Animals Protection Act, and other philosophical institutes in the Dominion are to be asked to agree to them and assist in having legislative effect being given them. Amongst the recommendations are that the warrant in the Gazette, of May 10, 1906, containing the list of birds absolutely protected, be substituted for the sixth schedule of the Act, that absolute protection bo given native bate and the tuatara lizard and its eggs, that the protection of opossums be removed, that native quail, the native lark, the Stephen's Island wren, the brown and ' black teal, the gray noddy, the white-capped noddy, ' albatrosses, mollyhawks, Auckland Island flightless ducks, and all shags except the black shag be absolutely protected, and that in section 42 the word "owls" be inserted amongst the animals the importation into the Dominion of which is prohibited.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14224, 22 November 1909, Page 6
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