The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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Page 28
... Southland Acclimatisation Society and liberated on the range of hills there . Nothing further was ever heard of them . Wallaroo or Euro ( Macropus robustus ) Some of these kangaroos were introduced into Kawau by Sir George Grey in the ...
... Southland Acclimatisation Society and liberated on the range of hills there . Nothing further was ever heard of them . Wallaroo or Euro ( Macropus robustus ) Some of these kangaroos were introduced into Kawau by Sir George Grey in the ...
Page 29
... Southland owe their origin , not to the Council , but to private enterprise ... Society imported some ( number not stated ) in 1869 ; five more in 1874-75 ... Society obtained 19 black Tasmanian opossums ( T. fuliginosus ) , and ...
... Southland owe their origin , not to the Council , but to private enterprise ... Society imported some ( number not stated ) in 1869 ; five more in 1874-75 ... Society obtained 19 black Tasmanian opossums ( T. fuliginosus ) , and ...
Page 31
... Southland Society , wrote a report on the habits of these animals to Mr Eustace Russell of Invercargill , from which I extract the following . The technical names of the plants given are added by myself : The food the opossum lives on ...
... Southland Society , wrote a report on the habits of these animals to Mr Eustace Russell of Invercargill , from which I extract the following . The technical names of the plants given are added by myself : The food the opossum lives on ...
Page 41
... societies . Several experiments have been made in this direction , and most of them seem likely to be successful . * Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ) ( a ) According to Mr Huddleston , whose father was curator of the Nelson Acclimatisation ...
... societies . Several experiments have been made in this direction , and most of them seem likely to be successful . * Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ) ( a ) According to Mr Huddleston , whose father was curator of the Nelson Acclimatisation ...
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... Southland Acclimatisation Society by Mr Moorhouse , who inspected the Stewart Island herds in 1918 , it is evident that the deer are now very numerous in the wooded northern and western parts of the island . Stewart Island is a ...
... Southland Acclimatisation Society by Mr Moorhouse , who inspected the Stewart Island herds in 1918 , it is evident that the deer are now very numerous in the wooded northern and western parts of the island . Stewart Island is a ...
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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