| Show A abero is now in the zoo a very re bird the neater or mountain kea of new zealand it is a parrot of strong baue and powerful bill and claw which were used like thoe of all parrots for a vegetable dim until the colonists introduced and pigs As iboa as tins was done tho kea seems to have abandoned tago table food and have taken entirely to neah eating he attacks sick or din or disabled sheep and with his powerful cutting beak opens a pas sapa the back ani aits the inte aea health driendl are some times assailed b the nestor and theio abc i ana la new zealand chero considerable losses leaie been incurred through these degenerated birds iha in the gardens rave as trouble to capture aj an caple tl e clothes oi the shepherd ho knocked it down while pouncing on a limb and lacerating ln hands ahe Kiat corn cooked meat fruit or coed and ikes lavi mutton bettch glnn any food he w ill tear the skin and feh fe h broin a sheep s be id after tho furious ot a alture but the bare raull he at buo ouo time holds the morsel in hie gilted lilted claw afeei the style of par ION and at another them under his feet while with his beak like hawk thin is a very curious example of chikae ol 01 habit for there i evi ry reason to believe that before sheep and piga wea into now zealand the kea was as vorous in its as braot if not all other pairott he will nov eat pork and bichai well as mutton and baa in fact utterly and hopelessly cai an 01 ou |
