OWLS TO THE RESCUE.
Lord Howe Island in the South Seas has been beset with an army of rats, particularly bothersome to the eleven inhabitants of the island. Poison and cats have failed to execute the rodents, and recently a number of owls were shipped from San Diego to wage war on the rats. Let us see, didn’t some powder company list the owls as vermin and urge their extinction? —(Nature M agazine. )
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Forest and Bird, Issue 16, 1 November 1928, Page 13
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73OWLS TO THE RESCUE. Forest and Bird, Issue 16, 1 November 1928, Page 13
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