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PORPHYRIO ALBUS CALEDONICUS :- (SARASIN)
AM.N.H. has FOUR (4) Wants TWELVE. (12)
Exchange value GOOD Total Permit No. 18 No. previously 3
Remarks TWO RED TICKS & LINE.
WAIRU 3/5/39. Clumpers heard calling along river at sundown.
17/5/39. Heard calling in Taru gardens.
18/5/39. Effort to collect. Only seen a few signs seen + one heard
calling in Taru gardens.
19/5/39. One heard calling in coffee cultivation forced there by floods.
20/5/39. 2 or 3 heard in grey dawn, none seen in coffee plantation.
Natives say it is more common across the river where I was
on the 18th.
20/6/39. 1 heard calling after gun shot.