WEASELS.
The Hastings correspondent of a Napier paper says:— The sportsmen about here are in despair. The wild ducks, which have been such a standby to professionals and a pleasure to amateurs, are becoming as rare as black swans at Home. What is the reason P Probably something may be due to the alleged fact that the close Beason is not respected as it should be, but the reason given by almost all is that the weasels eat the egg 3 and kill the young birds. The complaint ia not confined to wild ducks. A few years ago Te Aute swarmed with quail. They were therein thousands; now they are non est, and not one is to be seen. The weasel is again the culprit. What they did not catch feeding on the ground they caught up the trees. There is alao wailing among the sheep-farmers from the same little pest, numbers of lambs having been found dead, killed by weasels. One of my informants saw nine weasels in one cluster.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5272, 31 May 1895, Page 3
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