98 The Official Guide to the 
in their habits, feeding chiefly on earth-worms. For — 
these they probe the soft soil with their long bill, — 
near the point of which the ‘nostrils are situated ; 
although an extremely sensitive organ, it is probable 
that they are assisted in this search for food, not only 
by the delicacy of touch possessed by the point of the 
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THE NORTHERN Kiwi. (AApteryx mantelli.) 
From Professor Newtons ** Dictionary of Birds.” 
mandible, but also by the sense of smell, as when 
searching for food they utter a sniffing sound, as though 
testing their food by smelling as well as by touch. In 
the daytime they remain hidden under the ferns and 
other vegetation with which the soil in the localities 
frequented by them is profusely covered. We have two 
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