DESCRIPTION. 



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head, there is a feather or two of the normal colour. 

 To be exact, this abnormal example was obtained at the 

 head of the Shotover River, on the western side of the 

 Motutapu." 



There have come under my notice two malformations of 

 the Kea's beak. 



THE KEA (Museum Specimen) : Showing 



liKNERAL APPEARANCE. 



In 1899 a man photographed a Kea that had the upper 

 mandible shot away down to a stump. In spite of this 

 disadvantage the bird was very strong when seen. 



I have in my case the head of a Kea shot by Mr. R. 

 Urquhart, near the homestead of Mt. Algidus. The upper 

 mandible by some means had been shot wholly or partly 

 away just at the nostrils, leaving nothing but a stump. 



