. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . f the sea. It wasalso found living in communities on flats near themouths of rivers close to the sea. In these places itstracks resembled footpaths made by man, and led usat first to imagine that there must be natives in theneighbourhood. These tracks were about a foot wide,regularly pressed down to the edges, which are two orthree inches deep amongst the moss, and cross eachother usually at right angles. The Kakapo lives in holes under the roots of trees,and is also occasionally found under shelving roots of many New Zealand trees growing partly
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . f the sea. It wasalso found living in communities on flats near themouths of rivers close to the sea. In these places itstracks resembled footpaths made by man, and led usat first to imagine that there must be natives in theneighbourhood. These tracks were about a foot wide,regularly pressed down to the edges, which are two orthree inches deep amongst the moss, and cross eachother usually at right angles. The Kakapo lives in holes under the roots of trees,and is also occasionally found under shelving roots of many New Zealand trees growing partlyabove ground, holes are common under them. Therewere frequently two openings to these holes, and occa-fionally, though rarely, the trees over them were hollowfor some distance up. The only occasion on which the Kakapo was seento fly was wVien it got up one of these hollow trees, andwas driven to an exit higher up. The flight was veryshort, the wings being scarcely moved ; and the birdalighted on a tree at a lower level from the place. Budgerigars. FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY from whence it had come, but soon got higher up byclimbing, using its tail to assist it. Except when driven from its holes, the Kahapo isnever seen during the day, and it was only by theassistance of dogs that we were enabled to find it. During the latter half of February, and the firsthalf of March, whilst we were amongst the haunts ofthese birds, we found young ones in many of theholes, frequently only one, never more than two inthe same hole. In one case, where there were twoyoung ones, I found also an addled egg. There wasusually, but not always, an old bird in the same holewith the voung ones. They build no nest, but simply scrape a slighthollow amongst the dry dust formed by decayed voung were of different ages, some being nearlyfullyfledged, and others covered only with egg is white, and about the size of a pigeons,2^ in. long by 1 9-15 in. broad. The cry of the Kakapo is a ho
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