The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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Page 32
... young one once a year . The young one is from five to six months old before it leaves its mother , and is very nearly half - grown . The first four months it is carried in its mother's pouch , and after it leaves the pouch it rides on ...
... young one once a year . The young one is from five to six months old before it leaves its mother , and is very nearly half - grown . The first four months it is carried in its mother's pouch , and after it leaves the pouch it rides on ...
Page 34
... young sows and two boars . Dieffenbach states that these animals were mistaken by them for horses , they having some vague recollection of those which they had seen on board Captain Cook's vessels . They forthwith rode two of them to ...
... young sows and two boars . Dieffenbach states that these animals were mistaken by them for horses , they having some vague recollection of those which they had seen on board Captain Cook's vessels . They forthwith rode two of them to ...
Page 38
... young . Traces of pigs were very plentiful , not only their spoor but their rootings also being abundantly apparent . Native plants are also suffering , for we found whole patches turned over , Bulbinella and Pleurophyllum evidently ...
... young . Traces of pigs were very plentiful , not only their spoor but their rootings also being abundantly apparent . Native plants are also suffering , for we found whole patches turned over , Bulbinella and Pleurophyllum evidently ...
Page 39
... young ones also attack and destroy lambs , but they do not travel any distance to do so . He adds that pigs are very destructive to rabbits , eating the young ones when they take refuge in shallow burrows ; and states that where pigs ...
... young ones also attack and destroy lambs , but they do not travel any distance to do so . He adds that pigs are very destructive to rabbits , eating the young ones when they take refuge in shallow burrows ; and states that where pigs ...
Page 45
... young hind is as large as her mother ; and these young animals can only be distinguished by their rounder and neater bodies , and the darker rufous colour of their hair . They are quite big enough therefore to be served by a stag ...
... young hind is as large as her mother ; and these young animals can only be distinguished by their rounder and neater bodies , and the darker rufous colour of their hair . They are quite big enough therefore to be served by a stag ...
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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