The Danger of Introducing Noxious Animals And Birds
The Danger of Introducing Noxious Animals And Birds
T S Theodore Sherman Palmer
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The mina, or mynah {Acridotheres frisfi, s, fig. 4), is common thi-ough- out most of India, except Kashmir and Tenasserim. In its habits it ' Producers' Gazette, Western Australia, Y, January, 1898, p. 29. - Agr. Gazette, Tasmania, V, November. 1897, p. (i6: January, 1898, p. 103. 104 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Kohlmeise (Pariis major). Is somewliat like our native grackles or crow blackbirds, but seems to resemble the sparrow in its familiarity and partiality for human habitati...ons. It was introduced more than thirty-five years ago into Mauritius to destroy gras. Shoppers, and is said to have become perfectly naturalized there. ^ It has also been introduced into the Andaman Islands (some time prior to 1873), the Hawaiian Islands, New Zea- land, and possibly Australia. It is said to have reached the Hawai- ian Islands by way of China. Dr. Finsch, an eminentornitholo- gist, who visited Honolulu iu 1879, found it very abundant, and de- scribes its habits as follows : The mainas are a great nuisance to the inhabitants, as they drive away the pigeons and fowls, and are said to destroy the nests and eggs of the domestic birds.
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