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THE ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND 



in the Old Country, made me determined to see something of it if 

 I could. My opportunit.A' came only two days before my depar- 

 ture. I went with the members of ]\Ir. R. H. Shakespear's family, 



stitch Bird : male and female. 



who reside on the island, for a day's walk to the top of one of the 

 mountain peaks. At noon, when we were making our way along 

 a track through the forest on the mountain side, a female stitch- 

 bird, which had evidently come from the heights, fluttered about 



