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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15313, 14 August 1923, Page 2

Tlic To AraToa correspondent of tiie Poverty Ray Herald writes: There was consternation among the children the other day because our bird-cat-ching tree (parapara; Pisconia BrunornaiKi) had, with one. hit, captured no fewer than twenty little pihipihl. Or blight birds. On one small twig there were four, stuck close together. When iiic children found the little birds helplessly enmeshed in the stick berries of Die tree some were dead and some still alive and struggling. Since lids Interesting discovery Die boys now break off a twig of the parapara and slick if on onoilier tree which Hie lift!e birds frequent. lii this way sparrows and fantails arc caught: