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'file ]\[atiii?alists’ Goiripcuqiori. 
VoL. I. Brockpokt, N. Y., Feb. and March, 1886. Nos. 8 and 9. 
CABmroRO us parrots] 
« N New Zealand, there lives a large ! 
species of parrot called by the j 
natives, Kea. Since the introcluc- j 
tion of sheep into the island, this bird^ 
has develop3.1 the habit of attacking 
and killing sheep. We present o’lr 
sides of the helpless creatures, often 
biting out the intestines, and thus de¬ 
liberately killing them ; they then feed 
on the remains. The amount of injur 3 - 
done by them in their raids on the 
sheep folds of New Zealand has been 
greatly exaggerated, says Dr. Menzies, 
an authority on the subject, who states 
readers with an illustration of the bird 
and its method of attack. When press¬ 
ed by hunger, these birds will alight 
on the sheep, and despite the most 
vigorous resistance, peck holes in the 
that “on one run, where the loss was 
unusually large, the proportion of sheep 
attacked was about one in 300. Those 
pasturing below the elevation of 2,000 
feet are seldom disturbed.” The 
