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[July 31, 1909. 
"Resorts for Sportsmen. 
"Resorts for Sportsmen. 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 
Big-game hunting parties thoroughly and economically 
equipped. 
ELEPHANT. LION. BUFFALO. 
ANTELOPE. RHINOCEROS. 
Tell us when you want to start, and we do the rest. 
Write for booklet to NEWLAND TARLTON & CO., 
LTD. (head office, Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 166 Piccadilly, 
London, England. Cables: Wapagazi; London. 
HUNTING IN AFRICA 
Shooting parties outfitted and guided in 
Rhodesia. Best English and American refer¬ 
ences. Abundance of Big Game. Address 
WILLIAM FINAUGHTY. JR.. 
Bulawayo, Rhodesia. 
BIG GAME SHOOTING IN 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
Outfitters of Shooting and Scientific Expedi¬ 
tions. We are the only firm in the country, who 
through eleven years’ of existence, their large 
and varied experience and connections, can 
GUARANTEE every sportsman, who is an 
average shot, within six weeks 
100 Head of Mixed Game 
providing our advice is followed. Terms and 
Catalogues on application. All communications 
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CHAS. A. HEYER, M.E. A. U. N. H. S., 
Nairobi, British East Africa. 
Telegraphic address, HEYER, NAIROBI, 
A. B. C. Code, 5th Edition. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Excellent Salmon and Trout Fishing; also Caribou 
shooting. Tents, guides, boats provided. Write 
BUNGALOW, Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Salmon fishing and caribou hunting, best obtainable. 
Guides and camp outfit supplied. BAY ST. GEORGE 
HOTEL, Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. 
NEW BRUNSWICK , . 
Sportsmen.—If you are planning a hunting trip this fall 
and want good heads, try our camps on the Serpentine, 
headwaters of the Tobique River. A noted country for 
big game. Moose, Caribou and Deer plentiful. For par¬ 
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County, New Brunswick. 
Grand Island Forest and Game Preserve 
An island containing 13,600 acres, located in Munising 
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Stocked with Caribou, Elk, Moose, and various species of Deer 
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Terms Reasonable 
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For illustrated booklet, containing full information, apply to 
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Land Department Munising, Michigan 
“THE HOMESTEAD,” Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Good bass and trout fishing, three miles from R.R. Daily, 
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BIG TROUT 
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the male’s booming can be heard for a couple 
of miles. Therefore I think it likely that the 
males take up their places in these, “bowers,” 
distend their air-sacks, and start their enchant- j 
ing love-songs; and that the females, like others 
of the sex, love the music and parade, and come 
up to see the show—that is, if they can see the 
green and yellow in the dark; if not, they can 
tramp along the pathways, listen to the music, 
and have a gossip with the best performers. 
However, it is almost certain that they can see 
distinctly, because the plumage .of the male bird 
is pretty, and always looks its best at this sea¬ 
son, and he would not retain that distinction 
without a reason for it. . , 
Though we can hear plenty of kakapos in the 
evenings, we can never tell within a mile of 
where they are, and they do not keep the boom¬ 
ing going long enough for us to hunt them up. 
They start with a couple of short grunts, and 
then five or six deep measured notes like the 
sound of a muffled drum, the loudest in the 
middle. This series will be repeated about three 
times in the daylight, and then there will be 
silence until some others take up the cry, per¬ 
haps miles away. 
On this ridge we got quite close to one when | 
drumming, and it was a powerful note. I could 
feel the tremble of it, and my boy who was 
holding the dog thirty yards away could also 
feel it. I thought the drumming was just at 
my feet, and we stood still for a long time in 
hopes that the bird would commence again, but 
he was silent, and when we brought up the dog 
we found him forty yards away, where he had 
taken shelter under a log. We had come up 1 
with all caution, stopping when he stopped, and 
walking while he was drumming, yet he seemed 
to have taken alarm. This will show how hard 
it is to get right up to one when he will take 
alarm at that distance. It was about 4 p. m., and 
very few are drumming as early as that. 
Tn our fortnight’s ramble we saw very few 
ridges that had “bowers” on them. On many 
there were none at all, and on others only one 
or two, and we never found them under five 
hundred feet or six hundred feet above the sea. 
The birds have peculiar valves in the nostrils, 
which are larger in the males, and may be a 
part of the apparatus for drumming. 
“Kakapo” is from two Maori words— kaka. 
a parrot, and />o, night—which is very becoming, 
because I think they are the only parrots that 
feed at night. They have small eyes for night 
birds, and often climb trees in the daytime to 
sit in the sun after a spell of wet weather, which 
shows that it is not the light they fear; but 
probably, like many other creatures, they have 
chosen the night to feed the better to avoid 
their enemies. The only enemies they have here 
are the sandflies, which do not come out at night, 
hut collect very quickly about any game they 
find near the ground in the daylight. The 
kakapo’s slow movements would allow them to 
be punished very severely if they walked about 
on the ground in the daytime, for I know to 
my cost that the flies are expert at getting, under 
cuffs and collars, and may do the same with the 
kakapo’s loose feathers. 
When I am in a penguin’s cave here I can 
always see near the door a cloud of sandflies 
that will not enter even into the gloom where 
I can see quite well. A good many of the wiser 
penguins seem to know how far the flies will 
come in, but some of them have their nests too 
near the door, where their voung ones will be 
punished severely, if not killed outright. I had 
two captive roas* killed by sandflies. 
I was always puzzled to know what the kaka- 
nos got so fat on in summer-time, hut now I 
find that they suck the honev out of the rata- 
blossoms, like all the other bush birds, and as 1 
this honey is plentiful in the Sounds in Decem¬ 
ber. it is an important food to mix with their 
various other items. I went out on December 
18 and gathered a teasnoonful of this honey in 
ten minutes with a little glass syringe, so that 
the kakapos could get as much of it as they 
wanted. The little branches of the ratas are 
very strong and able to bear their weight. 
Allen Kelly. 
♦Native name for the Apteryx or Kiwi. 
