STRANGE VISITOR
ANTARCTIC BIRD CAUGHT GOES TO AUCKLAND ZOO tSpecial to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The severe westerly gale which has been raging on the West- Coast- was responsible for the arrival of_ a rara avis at Oneh.mga -yesterday afternoon. About three o’clock a large bird fe l into the MeColl Timber Co.’s yard quite exhausted. , . , It was captured, arid the curator ot tho Zoo was furnished with its description. He identified it as an Antarctic seagull, which lias seldom, if ever, been x seen in these regions before. The bird is a little larger than a goose, being slate black in color. > It. has revived, and will be placed in (be Zoo.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 5
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114STRANGE VISITOR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 5
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