TROPICAL BIRD
AUCKLAND ZOO'S LOSS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 4.
Caught on. board the passenger steamer Tainui when off the Panama coast recently, a valuable tropical bird which .was being, brought to Auckland for presentation to the Zoo escaped from its cage and was lost;. according to Dr.- J.. S. Hudson, ship's surgeon on the Tainui, which arrived from Southampton today. ■ The bird was an Allans; gallinule, an American species of marsh bird.
Dr. Hudson, who is an honorary collector for the London Zoo, said the bird was of a particularly beautiful type. It was small in size, and its plumage was highly coloured, blue, pink," and yellow being the pre* dominating colours. It came on board when the ship was 120 miles from land, a remarkable flight for a bird with comparatively weak wings. Strangely enough, Dr. Hudson added, he had caught a gallinule in a similar way on board a ship when off the coast of Brazil last June. This bird was now in London Zoo,; being one of only two on exhibition.
While in Auckland Dr. Hudson will, approach the Auckland Zoo authorities with a view to securing birds for the London Zoo.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 7
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197TROPICAL BIRD Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 7
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