NEW ZEALAND RED DEER 103 



are unable to get any food, sheep eat the poisoned 

 rabbits and so die themselves. 



In New Zealand the authorities have imported 

 cats, stoats, weasels, ferrets, and a variety of other 

 noxious beasts in the vain hope of aiding their exter- 

 mination. The rabbits are as numerous as ever, the 

 only result being that the wingless, and nearly every 

 ground-nesting bird has been exterminated. 



RAKAIA GORGE, CANTERBURY 



I have the measurements of eighteen other heads killed in 

 Otago with a length of over 40 inches. 



