The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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Page 35
... attacked by dogs , if cover , such as flax , scrub or high grass was handy , they made for it and would form a circle , with the older pigs on the outside ring , and the younger ones in the centre for greater protection . The boars ...
... attacked by dogs , if cover , such as flax , scrub or high grass was handy , they made for it and would form a circle , with the older pigs on the outside ring , and the younger ones in the centre for greater protection . The boars ...
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... attacked them with their powerful beaks . Many shepherds in the district saw the birds attack the sheep , especially when the latter were in snow or were in poor condition . The keas lighted down on the wool , and bit into the loin ...
... attacked them with their powerful beaks . Many shepherds in the district saw the birds attack the sheep , especially when the latter were in snow or were in poor condition . The keas lighted down on the wool , and bit into the loin ...
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... attacked a party of tourists near the Mueller Hut , and was killed by the guide . It is most unusual for chamois to attack persons , but this particular animal is believed to have been in captivity for some years prior to importation ...
... attacked a party of tourists near the Mueller Hut , and was killed by the guide . It is most unusual for chamois to attack persons , but this particular animal is believed to have been in captivity for some years prior to importation ...
Page 62
... seemed to survive , when those of other colours succumbed to the disease . He also states that cats which live wholly on rabbits are very liable to disease . immense size and were game to the last if attacked 62 MAMMALIA.
... seemed to survive , when those of other colours succumbed to the disease . He also states that cats which live wholly on rabbits are very liable to disease . immense size and were game to the last if attacked 62 MAMMALIA.
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George Malcolm Thomson. immense size and were game to the last if attacked ; in fact no dog would tackle one single - handed . They were always in the pink of condition , which may be accounted for by the abundance of feed available in ...
George Malcolm Thomson. immense size and were game to the last if attacked ; in fact no dog would tackle one single - handed . They were always in the pink of condition , which may be accounted for by the abundance of feed available in ...
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abundant Acclimatisation Society Agricultural Department animals Apis mellifica appear Ashburton Auckland district Auckland Province Auckland Society introduced Australia Bay of Islands birds Bombus Bombus terrestris breeding brown trout bush Canterbury Society received Captain Cheeseman in 1882 Cheeseman reports Christchurch Cockayne common cultivated deer dogs Dunedin early eggs Eristalis tenax Europe the flowers Family fields and waste fish garden escape hatched Hatchery Hawke's Bay Hooker's list Hutton imported increase insect Invercargill Lake land large number larvæ Linn Manual Maori moth native naturalised North Island occurring Otago Society pest pheasants pigs plants ponds Queen Charlotte Sound rabbits rats recorded by Cheeseman recorded by Kirk recorded in Hooker's River salmon says season seeds seen sheep shipment Society liberated South Southland sparrows spawning species specimens spread stoats streams Taranaki trees visited W. W. Smith Waikato Waitaki Wanganui waste places weasels weed Wellington Society Whangarei wild Zealand
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Page 326 - Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
Page 450 - Zealand, where the eclipse occurs early on the morning of the gth, civil reckoning. The following are points in the central line corresponding to the annexed Greenwich mean times, with the duration of totality on that line. The positions of...
Page 533 - I am inclined to believe that the struggle between the naturalized and the native floras will result in a limitation of the range of the native species rather than in their actual extermination. We must be prepared to see many plants once common become comparatively rare, and possibly a limited number — I should not estimate it at more than a score or two — may altogether disappear, to be only known to us in the future by the dried specimens preserved in our museums.
Page 532 - At length a turning-point is reached, the invaders lose a portion of their vigour and become less encroaching, while the indigenous plants find the struggle less severe and gradually recover a portion of their lost ground, the result being the gradual amalgamation of those kinds best adapted to hold their own in the * Trans.
Page 474 - Linn, (the Paper Mulberry). The same plant is used by the Chinese to make paper. Whether the climate does not well agree with it I do not know, but they seemed to value it very much; that it was very scarce among them I am inclined to believe, as we have not yet seen among them pieces large...
Page 326 - And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us : for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
Page 370 - Ennis, a resident in New Zealand. The English water-cress grows so luxuriantly in that country as to completely choke up the rivers, sometimes leading to disastrous floods, and necessitating great outlay to keep the stream open. But a natural remedy has now been found in planting willows on the banks. The roots of these trees penetrate the bed of the stream in every direction, and the water-cress, unable to obtain the requisite amount of nourishment, gradually disappears.
Page 64 - ... domestic dog of those islands. And from the following description left by Crozet of the now extinct New Zealand dog it is evidently identical with that animal also, and consequently, we must infer, with the ancient dog of Polynesia : ' ' The only quadrupeds I saw in this country were dogs and rats. The dogs are a sort of domesticated fox, quite black or white, very low on the legs, straight ears, thick tail, long body, full jaws, but more pointed than that of the fox, and uttering the same cry...
Page 142 - Arrived at the lighthouse, an intensely interesting sight presented itself. The whole of the zone of light within range of the mirrors was alive with birds coming and going. Nothing else was visible in the darkness of the night but the lantern of the lighthouse vignetted in a drifting sea of birds. From the darkness in the east...