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The
Major
and
Robert
,
without
leaving
their
companions
,
shot
some
snipe
and
partridge
under
the
low
shrubs
of
the
plain
.
Olbinett
,
to
save
time
,
plucked
the
birds
as
he
went
along
.
Paganel
was
less
absorbed
by
the
culinary
importance
of
the
game
than
by
the
desire
of
obtaining
some
bird
peculiar
to
New
Zealand
.
His
curiosity
as
a
naturalist
overcame
his
hunger
as
a
traveler
.
He
called
to
mind
the
peculiarities
of
the
"
tui
"
of
the
natives
,
sometimes
called
the
mocking-bird
from
its
incessant
chuckle
,
and
sometimes
"
the
parson
,
"
in
allusion
to
the
white
cravat
it
wears
over
its
black
,
cassock-like
plumage
.
"
The
tui
,
"
said
Paganel
to
the
Major
,
"
grows
so
fat
during
the
Winter
that
it
makes
him
ill
,
and
prevents
him
from
flying
.
Then
he
tears
his
breast
with
his
beak
,
to
relieve
himself
of
his
fat
,
and
so
becomes
lighter
.
Does
not
that
seem
to
you
singular
,
McNabbs
?
"
"
So
singular
that
I
do
n't
believe
a
word
of
it
,
"
replied
the
Major
.
Paganel
,
to
his
great
regret
,
could
not
find
a
single
specimen
,
or
he
might
have
shown
the
incredulous
Major
the
bloody
scars
on
the
breast
.
But
he
was
more
fortunate
with
a
strange
animal
which
,
hunted
by
men
,
cats
and
dogs
,
has
fled
toward
the
unoccupied
country
,
and
is
fast
disappearing
from
the
fauna
of
New
Zealand
.
Robert
,
searching
like
a
ferret
,
came
upon
a
nest
made
of
interwoven
roots
,
and
in
it
a
pair
of
birds
destitute
of
wings
and
tail
,
with
four
toes
,
a
long
snipe-like
beak
,
and
a
covering
of
white
feathers
over
the
whole
body
,
singular
creatures
,
which
seemed
to
connect
the
oviparous
tribes
with
the
mam-mifers
.
It
was
the
New
Zealand
"
kiwi
,
"
the
Apteryx
australis
of
naturalists
,
which
lives
with
equal
satisfaction
on
larvae
,
insects
,
worms
or
seeds
.
This
bird
is
peculiar
to
the
country
.
It
has
been
introduced
into
very
few
of
the
zoological
collections
of
Europe
.
Its
graceless
shape
and
comical
motions
have
always
attracted
the
notice
of
travelers
,
and
during
the
great
exploration
of
the
Astrolabe
and
the
Zelee
,
Dumont
d'Urville
was
principally
charged
by
the
Academy
of
Sciences
to
bring
back
a
specimen
of
these
singular
birds
.
But
in
spite
of
rewards
offered
to
the
natives
,
he
could
not
obtain
a
single
specimen
.
Paganel
,
who
was
elated
at
such
a
piece
of
luck
,
tied
the
two
birds
together
,
and
carried
them
along
with
the
intention
of
presenting
them
to
the
Jardin
des
Plantes
,
in
Paris
.
"
Presented
by
M.
Jacques
Paganel
.
"
He
mentally
saw
the
flattering
inscription
on
the
handsomest
cage
in
the
gardens
.
Sanguine
geographer
!
The
party
pursued
their
way
without
fatigue
along
the
banks
of
the
Waipa
.
The
country
was
quite
deserted
;
not
a
trace
of
natives
,
nor
any
track
that
could
betray
the
existence
of
man
.
The
stream
was
fringed
with
tall
bushes
,
or
glided
along
sloping
banks
,
so
that
nothing
obstructed
the
view
of
the
low
range
of
hills
which
closed
the
eastern
end
of
the
valley
.
With
their
grotesque
shapes
,
and
their
outlines
lost
in
a
deceptive
haze
,
they
brought
to
mind
giant
animals
,
worthy
of
antediluvian
times
.
They
might
have
been
a
herd
of
enormous
whales
,
suddenly
turned
to
stone
.
These
disrupted
masses
proclaimed
their
essentially
volcanic
character
.
New
Zealand
is
,
in
fact
,
a
formation
of
recent
plutonic
origin
.
Its
emergence
from
the
sea
is
constantly
increasing
.
Some
points
are
known
to
have
risen
six
feet
in
twenty
years
.
