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by 1890 became a pest. The European Starling introduced 

 into New Zealand in 1867 in a few years began to show itself 

 as an undesirable. The skylark, the linnet and the blackbird 

 of England, have in the antipodes developed new food habits, 

 and instead of being insect destroyers as at home, are becoming 

 fruit pests. 



Can we therefore venture to invite the Cinnabar Moth to 

 Nova Scotia? Test the new conditions might develop a taste 

 for something more than the succulent foliage of St. James 

 Ragwort. 



