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IN your issue of December 28, 1905, there occurs a note referring to statements made at a meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Wellington with regard to the habits of Nestor notabilis, to the effect that the carnivorous habits that have been attributed to this parrot are exaggerated, if not totally untrue. It is unfortunate that this report of the meeting has obtained the wide currency that NATURE will give it, for it is abundantly evident that the speakers at Wellington were unacquainted with the facts about the kea.
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BENHAM, W. Carnivorous Habits of the New Zealand Kea Parrot. Nature 73, 559 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073559a0
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