

SENDING TOADS TO NEW ZEALAND. 



IN reply to " Invicta's " question as to the 

 best mode of sending toads to New Zealand, I 

 think the best means he could employ would be to 

 send them in a large tin-box, perforated with 

 numerous holes, and half filled with moss. A stock 

 of earth-worms and larvse of the blow-fly (Musca 

 vomitoria) should be sent on board with them, as 

 they require to be fed every evening. The worms 

 can be kept in moist earth, and the maggots in 

 moss, with a sufficient supply of their natural but 

 unsavoury food. These the toads will eat with 

 avidity, and if a sufficient supply of worms, &c., 

 are laid in, the greater part will most probably 

 reach New Zealand in a healthy state. They 

 should have fresh water poured over them frequently, 

 indeed, every day, or they will speedily be reduced 

 to the dry and mummy-like condition alluded to 

 by Mr. Buckland. A good supply of toads will 

 doubtless be a great benefit to a country so devoid 



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