The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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Page 8
... common with Tasmania and Australia are far better represented in the former country , but disappear gradually as the north - east is reached . The affinities of our land and fresh - water molluscs are strongly marked on the line ...
... common with Tasmania and Australia are far better represented in the former country , but disappear gradually as the north - east is reached . The affinities of our land and fresh - water molluscs are strongly marked on the line ...
Page 9
... common names as , for example , Acana microphylla , Gaultheria antipoda , or Pimelea lævigata , and many others which might be named , it would be found that each deserves to be separated into a group of distinct species . Keeping this ...
... common names as , for example , Acana microphylla , Gaultheria antipoda , or Pimelea lævigata , and many others which might be named , it would be found that each deserves to be separated into a group of distinct species . Keeping this ...
Page 10
... common to New Zealand and other countries , no less than 80 per cent . are also found in Australia , The remaining elements - Antarctic and Polynesian - are few as com- pared with the Australian . It would appear from the above analysis ...
... common to New Zealand and other countries , no less than 80 per cent . are also found in Australia , The remaining elements - Antarctic and Polynesian - are few as com- pared with the Australian . It would appear from the above analysis ...
Page 64
... common . " In 1868 , H. H. Travers in his account of a visit to the Chatham Islands states that wild cats were very abundant , and that they had destroyed a great number of the indigenous birds . Mr F. A. D. Cox , writing to Mr Jas ...
... common . " In 1868 , H. H. Travers in his account of a visit to the Chatham Islands states that wild cats were very abundant , and that they had destroyed a great number of the indigenous birds . Mr F. A. D. Cox , writing to Mr Jas ...
Page 75
... common throughout the country . I was formerly of opinion that this species , which does not in Northern Europe survive the winter unless carefully housed , could not stand the winter in Otago , or indeed in any of the inland parts of ...
... common throughout the country . I was formerly of opinion that this species , which does not in Northern Europe survive the winter unless carefully housed , could not stand the winter in Otago , or indeed in any of the inland parts of ...
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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