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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 2

It took the tuis a fairly long time to get on to it, bnt when they caught the tune they did full justice to it, all beginning to sing the old popular tune. Mr Davey lift Hikimutu ten years ago. He visited the district again in September last. To his surprise, tuis were Btill singing the same tune. Dr C. E. R. Bucknill, of Tauranga, knows most of New Zealand's sea-shells. His selection of the pheasant-shell for special mention places it in the front rank of the Dominion's beauties. It is so delicate in its beauty that it brings to his mind the whimsical and famous remark of Dr Boteler in the seventeenth century in regard to the strawberry: " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless He never did." Dr Bucknill describes this shellfish as " a perfect gem." It is an elongated, narrow sph-al about a quarter of an inch long, highly polished, almost transparent, of a deep rose or ruby colour, and usually adorned with short-half-moou splashes of white. New" Zealand's pheasant-shell is its own. Other pheasant-shells occur in other parts of the world. Australia has some that are particularly beautiful, but New Zealand's only species, radiant, exquisite, and unnmtchable is the most beautiful of them all.

Kaitanjtata burns bri K htly. to the last particle, cleanly, and without soot.—Advt.