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INDEX OF AUTHORITIES 



Tancred: wild dogs, 69; rats, 77 

 Tanner: identification of Salmonidse, 



192 

 Taylor, Rev. R.: naturalised pigs, 36; 



native dogs, 65 ; Maori rat, 77 

 Thomson, G. Stuart: wild dogs in 



Marlboro', 70; behaviour of stoat, 



73 ; Maori rat, 78 

 Thomson, Dr W. Malcolm : brown owl 



V. morepork, 139 

 Traill, W. : geese on Stewart Island, 



106 

 Travers, H. H.: wild cats on Chatham 



Islands, 64; silver-grey rabbits, 86; 



cause of disappearance of turkeys, 



109 

 Travers, W. T. L. : Maori rat, 77 ; food 



of native hawks, 85; destruction of 



native flora, 527 

 Treves, Sir F.: destructive work by 



American squirrels, 76 

 Tuckett, T.: first record of rabbits in 



N.Z., 85 

 Turner, E. Phillips: wild horses, 39; 



hares on volcanic plateau, 96 



Wallace, Alfred Russell : effect of Nor- 

 way rat, 82; supplanting of native 

 by introduced species, 509, 526 



Warburton, A.: kowhai trees and wild 

 pigeons, 13s 



Warden, H. : small brown owl v. more- 

 pork, 139 



Watson, H. N. : introduction of toads, 



183 



Watts, H.: alleged hybridisation of sky- 

 lark and native pipit, 141 ; starlings 

 and red currants, 158 



Weir, H. C: wild cats in Otago, 63 



White, Taylor: wild dogs, 67; rats, 80; 

 plague of mice, 84 



Wilkes : vegetables on Auckland Islands, 



451 

 Williams, Captain: early cultivation of 



the potato, 17 

 Williamson, Dr H. C: retardation of 



herring ova, 186 

 Wilson, Andrew: wild dogs, 69 

 Wohlers, Pastor: mice in Ruapuke, 84 

 Wright, A. M.: destructive beetles, 290 



Yarborough: wild horses, 39; cattle 

 in Hokianga district, 52; stoats and 

 weasels, 75 ; non-burrowing rabbits, 

 91 ; frogs, 179 



Youl: introduction of Salmonidae into 

 Australia, 188, 194 



