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THE enclosed extract from a letter just received by me from my friend, Captain Hinde, of the British East Africa Protectorate, will interest all zoologists. It is a curious fact that a bird which is so valuable as Buphaga in clearing parasitic insects from cattle that we lately agreed to give it special protection at the International Conference on the Preservation of African Wild Animals, should now, by a sudden change of conditions induced by man, become a dangerous and noxious creature. This fact shows how difficult is the problem presented by the relations of civilised man to a fauna and flora new to his influence.
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LANKESTER, E. Change of Feeding Habits of Rhinoceros-birds in British East Africa. Nature 62, 366 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062366a0
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