SCIENTISTS ON ISLANDS
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES
SADDLEBACK NOT EXTINCT.
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WHANGAREI. Friday
During the past week Professor James R. Kirk, president of the New Zealand Institute, Mr. H, Hamilton, of the- Wellington museum, and Mr. W. Mackenzie Eraser, honorary curator, camped on the Poor Knights and Hen and Chickens Islands?. Their mission vas a scientific investigation of what these atolls could disclose. They found specimens of Maori woven cloth on the Poor Knights. These were relics of tho Ngatiawa tribe, nicknamed the "Ridgepolers," because they shifted quarters so often. They were massacred by raiders. Descendants of the few survivors are easily recognisable in the North to-day, mainly by tho fact that their hair has an auburn tinge.
The scientists also established the fact, that Bul!er's shearwater was to be found On those islands and that the saddleback, a small songbird which was generally believed to be extinct, was present ic fairly largo numbers on the Hen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 11
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