STUDY OF BIRD LIFE
ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH (0.C.) IN VBR GAR GILL, Tuesday Three bird-lovers, Mr. Edgar Stead, Major R. A. Wilson, of Bulls, and Mr. Elworthy, of Timaru, have left Bluff in the launch Lena for Green Island. The party intends spending some time studying natural life on several of the islands out of Bluff. There has been some talk at Bluff of a strange bird having been seen recently at Rnapuke Island, but residents with years of knowledge of the fauna on outlying islands consider it will be one of the birds commonly known as Mother Carey's chickens. It is Mr. Stead's intention to study the habits of the native robin and to continue his study of the mutton-bird. It is also understood that he will try to discover one of the two-headed lizards which are supposed to have been on the Hftsselbergs, a group of islands off Ruapuke. Mr. Stead is the author of a well-known work on Now Zealand birds, and it is understood he is now preparing another book.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24132, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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