Wild Life in New Zealand, Teil 1Government Printer, 1921 - 222 Seiten |
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Seite 76 - Their stations on rocks or in bays have remain'd unmolested since the Creation. The beach is incumber'd with their quantities, and those who visit their haunts have less trouble in killing them than the servants of the victualling office have who kill hogs in a pen with mallets.
Seite 107 - But bite the pearch will, and that very boldly: and as one has wittily observed, if there be twenty or forty in a hole, they may be at one standing all catched one after another, they being, as he says, like the wicked of the world, not afraid, though their fellows and companions perish in their sight.
Seite 42 - ... a short distance, and then lie down panting. The result of this peculiar affection was that, at nearly every mustering, these short-winded sheep used to be left behind, being unable" to be driven with the rest. Sometimes they were brought on more slowly afterwards ; but, if it happened to be shearingtime, they were simply caught and shorn where they lay. As a result of this peculiar condition, a form of artificial selection was set up, the vigorous, active sheep being constantly drafted away...
Seite 62 - ... domestic dog of those islands. And from the following description left by Crozet of the now extinct New Zealand dog it is evidently identical with that animal also, and consequently, we must infer, with the ancient dog of Polynesia : ' ' The only quadrupeds I saw in this country were dogs and rats. The dogs are a sort of domesticated fox, quite black or white, very low on the legs, straight ears, thick tail, long body, full jaws, but more pointed than that of the fox, and uttering the same cry...
Seite 42 - ... cranky" sheep (as they came to be called) were left behind. This defective character appeared in every succeeding generation, and seemed to increase in force, reminding one of the Ancon sheep referred to by Darwin. At first, of course, the character was not recognized as hereditary; but, as the numbers of this "cranky...
Seite 42 - ... the purchasers found it necessary, for the protection of their own interests, to exterminate the variety, of which hundreds were found straggling over the country. This was easily and effectually done in the following manner : As soon as a sheep was observed it was pursued ; but, after running for a couple of hundred yards at a great rate of speed, it would drop down panting behind a big stone or other shelter, and seemed incapable for a time of rising and renewing its flight. It was immediately...
Seite 104 - It is one of the hardiest of fishes, will care for itself and even thrive in the muddiest of stagnant waters. It will breed readily and will endure complacently every hardship of drought, extremes of temperature, and lack of food. Every trait of our cat-fish bespeaks its stagnant mud-loving nature; dusky in color, sluggish, and blundering, furnished with long and tactile barbels, a shallow, slowly drained pond, furnished with an occasional deep mudhole, will suit admirably the needs of the fish....
Seite 43 - ... with the fruits of their labour; the good effects of which we soon felt. For we were, by no means, such expert fishers as they are; nor were any of our methods of fishing equal to theirs. On the 2d of June, the ships being nearly ready to put to sea, I sent on shore on the east side of the sound, two goats, male and female. The former was something more than a year old; but the latter was much older. She had two fine kids, some time before we arrived in Dusky Bay, which were killed by cold, as...
Seite 78 - Pegassus took home 100,000 of these in bulk, and on her arrival in London the skins, having heated during the voyage, had to be dug out of the hold, and were sold as manure, a sad and reckless waste of life.
Seite 104 - ... hardiest of fishes, will care for itself and even thrive in the muddiest of stagnant waters. It will breed readily and will endure complacently every hardship of drought, extremes of temperature, and lack of food. Every trait of our cat-fish bespeaks its stagnant mud-loving nature; dusky in color, sluggish, and blundering, furnished with long and tactile barbels, a shallow, slowly drained pond, furnished with an occasional deep mudhole, will suit admirably the needs of the fish. If the water...