A Rakauroa resident possesses a rooster with an amaring habit—that of hopping like a small bird when startled (comments a contemporaryV The rooster is one of a brood that was taken into the back country when a dav old. and the rbeorv is .Vld that he picked up the somewhat ludicrous habit from the sparrows about th© homestead. The bird is physically perfect. and when not excited walks in the ordinary style of a well-mannered fowl, but if chased, leaps away. springing from both feet together in long and rapid bops. The bird has been christened the Ci kangarooster-’*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16635, 18 January 1922, Page 6
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