The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... Australian swallows ( the Australian Tree Swallow ( Pterochelidon nigricans ) and the Australian Swift ( Cypselus pacificus ) ) visit our shores nearly every summer , and that natural agencies have been trying to achieve on a very large ...
... Australian swallows ( the Australian Tree Swallow ( Pterochelidon nigricans ) and the Australian Swift ( Cypselus pacificus ) ) visit our shores nearly every summer , and that natural agencies have been trying to achieve on a very large ...
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... Australia , in addition to that of New Zealand , in due course I added the introduced plants to my previous lists . The two groups can hardly be separated in this connection , and on account of their inter - relations it is best to ...
... Australia , in addition to that of New Zealand , in due course I added the introduced plants to my previous lists . The two groups can hardly be separated in this connection , and on account of their inter - relations it is best to ...
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... Australia ; the other belongs to an endemic genus , Mystacops . The bird - fauna contains a number of endemic genera and species , the affinities of many being obscure . Of those which belong to readily recognised types of land birds ...
... Australia ; the other belongs to an endemic genus , Mystacops . The bird - fauna contains a number of endemic genera and species , the affinities of many being obscure . Of those which belong to readily recognised types of land birds ...
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... Australia and New Caledonia . Planorbis corinna which is world - wide in its distribution is precinctive to New Zealand , but the genus Planorbis has a universal distribution . Mr Suter informs me that " the genera of land mollusca ...
... Australia and New Caledonia . Planorbis corinna which is world - wide in its distribution is precinctive to New Zealand , but the genus Planorbis has a universal distribution . Mr Suter informs me that " the genera of land mollusca ...
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... Australia . Of these 134 occur both in Australia and Tasmania ( eight in Tasmania alone ) , while the remaining 129 have a wider range , some being common tropical or sub - tropical weeds , while others are found throughout the ...
... Australia . Of these 134 occur both in Australia and Tasmania ( eight in Tasmania alone ) , while the remaining 129 have a wider range , some being common tropical or sub - tropical weeds , while others are found throughout the ...
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abundant Acclimatisation Society Agricultural Department animals appear Ashburton attacked Auckland district Auckland Society introduced Australia Bay of Islands beetle birds breeding brown trout bush Canterbury Society received Chatham Islands Christchurch common cultivated deer destroyed distributed dogs Dunedin early eggs Family fish flowers fruit further record garden escape hatched Hatchery Hawke's Bay Hokitika Hooker's list imported increase insect Invercargill Lake land large number larvæ Linn Manual Maori Maskell moth native naturalised Nelson Society North Island occurring opossums Otago Society pest pheasants Philpott pigs plants ponds probably Queen Charlotte Sound rabbits rats recorded by Kirk recorded in Hooker's reported River salmon says season seeds seen sheep shipment shipped Society liberated South Southland Southland Society sparrows spawning species specimens spread starlings Stewart Island stoats streams taken Taranaki Tasmania trees W. W. Smith Waikato Waitaki Wanganui waste places weasels weed Wellington Society Whangarei wild young Zealand