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of theirs, I believe, is the cause of, and excuse for, the 

 war of extermination that is being waged against them 

 by the colonists in New Zealand. 



The call of this species is sufficiently loud, but it 



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is sweet and not by any means unpleasing to listen 

 to, and although my pair continued to be "as wild as 

 hawks" while I had them, I have heard of others that 



