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Rh head, there is a feather or two of the normal colour. To be exact, this abnormal example was obtained at the head of the Shotover River, on the western side of the Motutapu.”

There have come under my notice two malformations of the Kea’s beak.



In 1899 a man photographed a Kea that had the upper mandible shot away down to a stump. In spite of this disadvantage the bird was very strong when seen.

I have in my case the head of a Kea shot by Mr. R. Urquhart, near the homestead of Mt. Algidus. The upper mandible by same means had been shot wholly or partly away just at the nostrils, leaving nothing but a stump.