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' of them when he first came, but he can never 
get near enough now, though he has long legs. 
When the hens began to lay, the wekas would 
steal every egg they could and always tear up 
the nest. This shows that the weka’s hereditary 
knowledge is more of duck eggs than any others, 
for I think it is only the ducks that cover up 
their eggs, and if it were not for wekas and 
rats, there might be great flocks of teal here. 
By giving one of the bantam hens a nest lip 
on posts she brought out seven chickens, which 
I put in a wire net inclosure, and it was in¬ 
structive to see the eagerness of the wekas to 
get at them when they first saw them. If it 
had not been for the netting the seven chickens 
would have all gone in about seven minutes; as 
it is they have taken four of them, and one of 
them while we were looking on. They are so 
swift and artful that there is no use chasing them. 
The male and female wekas pair for life. A 
female weka cannot protect her chickens from 
other wekas for a single day if her mate is 
killed, because he has always done the fighting 
and kept his little domain free from intruders. 
If the mate failed in that his family would soon 
disappear. 
Like the robins and tits some of the male 
wekas will not allow their mates to come near 
our tent, evidently with a view to their safety, 
because when we stay in a place for a few days 
the male bird gets full confidence in our friend¬ 
liness and allows his mate to come quite close. 
ACCLIMATIZATION OF AMERICAN 
FISHES IN ARGENTINA. 
Continued from page 621. 
Gutierrez, and Correntosa. Lago Traful is 
about forty-five miles from Lago JNahuel Huapi, 
and is about thirty miles long, but probably 
not more than five wide at greatest width, and 
very narrow at other points. Lago Gutierrez 
and Lago Correntosa are connected with Lago 
Nahuel- ■ Huapi by short streams. Both lakes 
are about ten miles long, with an average of 
two to four miles in width. The larger propor¬ 
tion of the brook trout were planted in a num¬ 
ber of small rivers and streams flowing into 
these lakes, as well as in tributaries to the Rio 
Limay and Rio Traful. The Rio Limay flows 
out of Lago Nahuel Huapi, and the Rio Traful 
out of Lago Traful, and empties into the Rio 
Limay. 
Lake trout have been found in Lago Traful 
and Lago Correntosa, and landlocked salmon 
in Lago Gutierrez, while brook trout have been 
found in nearly all of the rivers and brooks 
stocked. In many of these the brook trout are 
very numerous and are increasing rapidly. The 
superintendent and assistants of the Nahuel 
Huapi hatchery took, both last year and this, 
thousands of fingerlings from irrigating ditches 
which receive their water from these streams, 
and renlanted them in the brooks. Only last 
April 860 brook trout fingerlings were taken 
from a small garden-irrigating ditch heading in 
the “arroyo de Jones,” and 2.300 from another 
heading in the “arroyo de Newberry.” These 
were undoubtedly fingerlings hatched in 
September or October, 1907. 
On March 1, 1905, the fish in the ponds at 
the Nahuel Huapi hatchery were counted, and 
there were found to be 8.500 brook trout, 3 800 
lake trout, and 1.800 landlocked salmon. They 
measured from 6 to 8 inches in length. A large 
number were accidentally lost during the latter 
part of the year, but in May. 1906, we had a con¬ 
siderable number of each of these species in the 
ponds. The death rate in all three from the 
time hatched, in March. 1904. until now was as 
low as would have been found at any one of the 
more successful trout hatcheries in the United 
States. During this month (May! about 50.000 
brook trout eggs were collected from stock 
