A curious craze, the eternal hankering for all manner of foreign creatures to stock our plains and forests. Fortunately the mania is confined to a comparative few, mostly members of Acclimatisation Societies, but they are expert in wangling permission to introduce this bird and that on the plea of food for sportsmen or for the purpose of making war on other creatures introduced by their forerunners in acclimatisation. The latest notion is a suggestion in Auckland that certain game birds should be imported from Buenos Ayres to provide shooting in the north of New Zealand. Not long ago a lot of game birds called chukor were imported from India. Some time back someone interested in fur animals suggested introducing various North American creatures, including silver foxes; another man advocated beaver, which would do so well in the forest rivers of the Fiordland National Park.