Crow Chickens Must Have Feathers
Zanzibar had a plague of crows. After all other methods had . failed to reduce their numbers effectively, rewards were offered —ten cents for a crow’s egg; 50 cents- (6d) for crows alive or dead. Payments were made by District Officers. In due course a boy appeared at : the Assistant District Officer’s. Office with a basket of crow’s eggs. Urgent business kept the officer from, dealing with the boy at once, and the eggs began to hatch out. When the Assistant District Officer began paying, the boy asked for 50 cents for each of the crow chickens. After that the regulations were altered — 50 cents for the crows ... if they had feathers on!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 43, 26 September 1949, Page 6
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