374. 



TUTIRA 



The period between the first arrival on Tutira of the goldfinch and 

 the time when a marked increase took place in the breed when the 

 station began to be stocked by the station-bred birds was also notice- 

 ably brief. The goldfinch in its northern advance during the 'eighties 



temporary cul-de-sac, hemmed in by mountains anil forest on the one side, by a huge snow-fed 

 river the Eangitata on the other, whilst directly across the westward exit lay the hamlet 

 of Peel Forest. Two or three seasons later, upon my return, there was hardly a hare to be seen : 



Hares east of village. 



Hares west of village. 



the impulse to move had swept the locality bare, the barrier had been burst, the hares had 

 proceeded on their way. 



Shooting-parties held in one decade east were in the next held west of the gorge. 



