The Starlings : The Huia 
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shews one of New Zealand’s flightless birds, the kiwi; and the 
shilling stamp, orange-red, also designed by W. R. Bock, shows 
a pair of kaka, the noisy brown parrot. The rest of the stamps 
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Euahine range, the home of our favourite bird. "We ask you, 
0 Governor! to restrain the pakehas from shooting it, that 
when your boy grows up he may see the beautiful bird^ which 
bears his name.”—The courteous Maori did not saj whose 
name he bears,” though no one but the Maori themselves 
may ha\ T e noticed the difference. Protection to the biid was 
granted on 25th February, 1892; but it failed to ward off its 
extinction. The Earl also urged the reservation of Little 
