The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... weasels in order to cope with the rabbit pest ; another destroyed them wherever found because they threatened the total destruction of the native bird life . There has been no settled policy . This has largely been due to the total ...
... weasels in order to cope with the rabbit pest ; another destroyed them wherever found because they threatened the total destruction of the native bird life . There has been no settled policy . This has largely been due to the total ...
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... weasels to enable them to grow wool and mutton , instead of rabbits . There is still no general principle underlying the work , and not sufficient knowledge of the possibilities of each problem . Part II NATURALISATION OF ANIMALS In ...
... weasels to enable them to grow wool and mutton , instead of rabbits . There is still no general principle underlying the work , and not sufficient knowledge of the possibilities of each problem . Part II NATURALISATION OF ANIMALS In ...
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... weasel , black rat , brown rat , mouse , rabbit , hare and hedgehog . The following three have been some- what recently introduced , but cannot be said to have been naturalised yet : Japanese deer , black - tailed deer and thar . The ...
... weasel , black rat , brown rat , mouse , rabbit , hare and hedgehog . The following three have been some- what recently introduced , but cannot be said to have been naturalised yet : Japanese deer , black - tailed deer and thar . The ...
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... weasels , and estimates that a cat will kill more rabbits in a month than one of the others will in six months . Dieffenbach , writing of the Piako district ( Auckland ) in 1839 , says : " the cats which , on becoming wild , have ...
... weasels , and estimates that a cat will kill more rabbits in a month than one of the others will in six months . Dieffenbach , writing of the Piako district ( Auckland ) in 1839 , says : " the cats which , on becoming wild , have ...
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... weasels and stoats in the colony . Most of the bush coverts are full of these cats , a fact which he himself proved near Fielding where , with the assistance of traps baited with smoked fish , he caught many . " I think they may have ...
... weasels and stoats in the colony . Most of the bush coverts are full of these cats , a fact which he himself proved near Fielding where , with the assistance of traps baited with smoked fish , he caught many . " I think they may have ...
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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