The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... South - eastern 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 ...
... South - eastern 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 ...
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... South America via Antarctica . But leaving the general question and confining myself to species derived from the nearest present land surface , the following summary of the distribution of the Lepidoptera , for which I am indebted to Mr ...
... South America via Antarctica . But leaving the general question and confining myself to species derived from the nearest present land surface , the following summary of the distribution of the Lepidoptera , for which I am indebted to Mr ...
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... South Island . Cook also landed two goats , a male and a female , on the east side of the Sound , but there is reason to believe that the natives killed them . He gave them another pair in 1777 , and it is popularly believed that most ...
... South Island . Cook also landed two goats , a male and a female , on the east side of the Sound , but there is reason to believe that the natives killed them . He gave them another pair in 1777 , and it is popularly believed that most ...
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... south - east of Otago , and writes of one settlement there as follows : At Tautuku Bay ( 30 miles from Molyneux River ) is a good deal of land cultivated by a number of industrious men who are , through the winter , engaged in the whale ...
... south - east of Otago , and writes of one settlement there as follows : At Tautuku Bay ( 30 miles from Molyneux River ) is a good deal of land cultivated by a number of industrious men who are , through the winter , engaged in the whale ...
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... South Canterbury , West Coast of South Island , Nelson , Wellington and Gisborne . " In suc- ceeding years more were obtained and distributed throughout other parts of New Zealand , e.g. to Kapiti and Wainui - o - mata in 1893 , and to ...
... South Canterbury , West Coast of South Island , Nelson , Wellington and Gisborne . " In suc- ceeding years more were obtained and distributed throughout other parts of New Zealand , e.g. to Kapiti and Wainui - o - mata in 1893 , and to ...
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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