Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-09-21

Zealand's aviary are the whal- bird,
black on the back and white on ~fh9
morning rising from the night;
the huiz, sacred bird Of the aborig- I
ines-but all birds ought 10 be sacrcd.
The parson bird, SO called because the
white feathers round its neck give it the
appearance Of white choker;' tho
bell bird, with voice like chime from
the tower; the New Zealand pigeon,
three times as large - the Ansrtssn
pigeon and more beautiful only because
il has more expanse Of wing and feath-
ers on which TO be beautiful; The kea
that wars on the sheep, fastening itself
ON the back of the live sheep and net
relaxing. but pecking It's way throuEh
the wool and the flesh until the sheep is
dead and the beak reaches the fat
around the kidneys, for which This bird
has special appetite-n habit learned
probably by pecking at the butchercd /:
sheep around the dooy Of the shepherds
hut; the storm petreL Ike fake OF
the midnight; the crested penguin; the
paradise duck, its name taken from the
fact that its richness Of color suggests
the Edenic-and birds with all wealth
Of feather, and curiosity Of beak, and
eccentricity Of habit and defense OF
claw, and audacity Of fight and besr-
ing oil colors-the white running into
crimson, like snow melting fnso the
fire; the blue as II IN sorne higher tight
It had brushed against tho heavens, or
yellow as II 1t had nested among cow
slips and buttercups, or pottcd and
fringed and ribboned and shame until
there arc no more fountains Of radiance
into which they can possibly dip their
wings. Oh, for some scientific gunner
10 do for New Zealand what Audubon
did for Americal But what | never
knew before, the native birds are dying
out before the foreign birds that have
been introduced, and the native flowers
are dying out before tho foreign flowers.
Although now New Zealand is so
abundant in all styles Of qusdrupeds, 10
had not, when discovered, a single quad
ruped except the rat and foreign rat
having been introduced fhc aboriginal
rat has nearly disappeared. The English
grass brought here has killed the native
grass The birds Of America Europe
and Asia imported here have killed
the birds Of New Zealand. All the earth
has been ransacked and all the botanical
and archaeological and ornithological
and geological worlds have been called
upon to make up the present and the
future Of New Zealand.
Yea, came to this wonderland, >" all
who want fc-~c enterprise ard advance
ment. Daily newspapers with scsslaS<
IL men In editorial chaiss lad reportcrr>
capable Of pumping interviews from
the most reticent and cautious and make
a sphinx speak Two thousand miles OF
railroad. Over !, 600 schools, with COM
pul.ory education, building up intelli-
gence for the present and affording no
opportunity for ignorance IN the nelt
censury. Baths, thermal ana chemical,
miles long ard capable Of putting an
end TO rheumatisms and seisticas and
inyalidisnns that have densd the min.
eral hydropnfhies sf The continents
Lake raupe 90 deep that No piunnet has
ever touched Sostom snd occupying the
hollow Of an extinct volcano. as bright
child might fan to sleep IN the bed pre-
viously occupied by grim giant Yea.
come to New Zealand, the naturalists
the artists md the students Of men aud
things, and come quickly, for nothing
remains here as il originally was En-
cep, the mountains, and evcn the neus-
| tains, as on the night Of June 9, 1885,
when the walls Of "the terraces" fell
| down at the blowing Of the trumpets OF
terror, proved themselves no longer 70
| be the Everlasting hills" &
| Z. DE WITT TALMAoE