BLOWN TO SEA.
BIRD REFUGEE IN LINER As the Mauretania was travelling from Southampton to New York a small bird of the linnet species, exhausted from a flight over the ocean, flew through one of the ship’s portholes and -took shelter in a cabin, where it settled down to, sleep. The tiny refugee was discovered some hours later, and, after making frantic efforts to escape from its self-chosen cage, was captured and placed in safety. It was realeased when it had thoroughly rested (says the Daily Mail).
At the time the liner was nearly a thousand miles from New York. It is presumed that the. bird had been blown to sea from the Banks of Newfoundland during a gale. Sea birds frequently alight on ocean liners, but are usually left alone, as sailors have a firm superstition that to touch them is to incur bad luck.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4932, 29 January 1926, Page 4
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146BLOWN TO SEA. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4932, 29 January 1926, Page 4
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