Mutton birds and other birds

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Identifier: muttonbirdsother00guth (find matches)
Title: Mutton birds and other birds
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Guthrie-Smith, H. (Herbert), 1861-1940
Subjects: Birds -- New Zealand
Publisher: Christchurch, N.Z. : Whitcombe and Tombs
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in my hands, was worked as soft andpliable as silk. It was then attached to thelarger nestlings leg so that at each snatch thedisturbed youngster sung out; thus again I gotexposures, and, what was more interesting,began to get an inkling of the parent birdsintelligence. In fact, during this day and after-wards she began to lose all fear. Perched withintwo feet of my arms she would watch me in herinquisitive, parrot manner; then with an easyhop or silent flight would peer into the gloomof the nest, her head first on one side and thenon the other and appear to be watching theagitations and tremors of the flax line. During the last day of our acquaintance I amsure she knew that in some wonderful way, I,although fifteen feet distant, was somehow orother disturbing her children. She had, in fact,worked out cause and effect; just as the rangingdog, who notices beside him a small stone inmotion, smells it, looks back at the master whohas flung it, and presently returns to heel. PLATE XXXVll.
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Kaka on nesting tree. AND OTHER BIKDS 83 Often Ijofore I knew this Parrot well, I ownI had thought her merely and solely philosophic,her solicitude over the maimer in which herchicks were disturbed deeper than over whatshe might reasonably have believed their dangerand pain. It was not until I saw her movedthat justice Avas accorded to her qualities ofheart. Six months later I re-visited this treewith McLean, and from the worn state of itsinterior and the signs of traffic about its innnedi-ate vicinity have no doubt the twins grew upand reached maturity. In its cavity, troddenand fouled, we discovered a penny—one of thecoins used in the tin mug; and which must havebeen jerked out; and it was with this luckypenny in my pocket that we found that same dayour first Kiwi burrow. 8^ MUTTON BIRDS

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