SONG OF NIGHTINGALE.
BIRDS FOR NEW, ZEALAND. ATTEMPT TO ACCLIMATISE. A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON, Oct. 26. Nightingales are being sent out to New Zealand in the hope that they will settle down in the bird sanctuary on Little Barrier Island. Mr. Angus Wilson, who will leave on Friday for New Zealand, via America, will take two pairs of nightingales in specially made cages with special food consisting of ants' egga and dried flies and honey, which were supplied from the London Zoo. The birds are the gift of the novelist, Mr. David Garnett, who says that at the first sigu of frost the nightingales migrate from England to Africa. These ha is sending to New Zealand may migrate in the winter time to Australia, but he is just afraid that when they naturally become homesick the birds may find their way from Australia to India and Persia, and so back to their beloved Surrey woods. ■*
•Mr. David Garnett is an author who attracted a good deal of attention by his uncommon tales, "Lady Into Fox" and "A Man in the Zoo. He also wrote "The Sailor's Return." He originally studied botany, and tried bookselling. He is now a partner in a publishing firm which specialises in beautiful productions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 11
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