New Zealand is fortunate in possessing so many small off-shore islands, seemingly designed by Nature as places of sanctuary for the too-quickly vanishing native birds. There are page 30 quite forty of these islands set aside by the State as reserves for the preservation of indigenous feathered life. Then there are the mainland sanctuaries, and the largest of these is the huge Fiordland National Park, the south-western corner of the South Island. This is all as wild can be, all forest and gorge and crag and snowy alp—a tremendous tameless region. Even here those foreign pests, the weasel, the stoat, the Norwegian rat, and the wild cat have penetrated, and the comparatively helpless native birds suffer. Nevertheless there is teeming bird life in the more remote parts, as reported by explorers. Mr. Kenneth Sutherland, of Te Anau, says that the curious flightless bird, the kakapo—the night-roving ground parrot, extinct in most other parts, is still to be found in all the bush country between Doubtful Sound, on the West Coast, and the north arm of Lake Te Anau. The kiwi, found in its several varieties in many parts of New Zealand, is plentiful on the seaward ranges. It is pleasant to know that all these species of birds, as reported by Mr. Sutherland, are still abundant: bellbird, bush wrens, pied fantail, wood robin, tomtit, kaka parrot, and kea or mountain parrot. Pigeon, too, the beautiful kukupa, is still fairly numerous. Only a few of the sweet-voiced tui were seen, but this bird is accustomed to migrate from one feeding-ground to another, like the kaka.