6 \\ll.l) LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND. 



library. This. besides beim.: rather expensive 1'or most private 

 read, more 0] Imical work, ami deals only with 



the higher vertebrate fauna indigenous to t IK-SI- Islands. Kxccllent 

 link from linn- to time in tin- Scfi<,<,l Jon //////, but 



HOl readily procurable. 



In all centiVs of settlement tin- animal life is almost as much 

 due in foreign immigration as tin- j.ro]>lr a i-e; but observers cannot 

 tell this fart without some assistance, ami one of the diilicult i-s 

 with which all embryo naturalists an- met is to know which plant* 

 and animals are native and which arc hit roduced. Let me illus- 

 bhis. 



Living as I do in a suburb of Duni-din. just outside the Town 

 re in m\ walks that in this neiL r hbourhood certain 

 species of birds are very common. They are house-sparrows, black- 

 birds, thrushes, starlimjs. and hedge-sparrows. These are all 

 forms whirl, have been introduced from (Ireat Britain. Almost 

 as abundant, but more erratic in their occurrence, are wa. \-e\es 

 (in- twinkiesi and irnldh'tielK-s the former a somewhat recent imnii- 

 t, a}')'arentlv from Australia, and the latter inTrodnced from 

 Britain. Lew .ibundani in varyini;- ileL r ree are L r re\ warblers. 



tomti's. f;m tailed flycatchers, ohaffinchea, greenfinohes, an o 



sional yelhwhammer. and a little brown owl. The first three are 



introduced. The native bell bird (or kori 



inakii) visits the L'ar.leiis from time to time, especially w'hen the 

 in Hower : while occasionally in the outlying districts one 

 hear a tui or a morcpork : these are all natives. In tip- 



-iiintry itifi-oduced skylarks are common. ;is are tin- 

 native irroiiml-hirks. or pipits. On the seashore are numerous 

 l' bird*, but these ;i re nil ilidiircnoiis ()n still 



niu'lit.x one often hear- the black swans ilvini: overhead in their 

 mi-' 'on, one sheet of water to another: the-e were ii 



from Western \Usli-alia. 



AlimiT the liniixi. . ' ', \\ mice, and in town brown 



common. T 1 QO1 kepi in check ly the do<js anrl 



uiion in many IUHN,.>. Durinu the ni-jliis heil^c- 



dMHit tin ,'iiiil are far m<.re cniniimn than 



unobservant people have jiny not inn of. All these and the other 



tnall met \\ith. such as horses and cattle, iheep, L'oats. p 

 and rabbit-. \\er. ..ri_'inally introduceil. mostlv from Britain. 



