When the Cunard liner Samaria was 500 miles from Boston on the way to Liverpool over a score of small birds, finches, wrens, and hedge sparrows, together with a homing pigeon and an owl, alighted on the deck in an exhausted condition. They were picked up, and flew in the garden lounge, and when the steamer arrived at Liverpool, several of the birds were still flitting among the shrubs and hanging baskets of flowers.
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Evening Star, Issue 18533, 16 January 1924, Page 6
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74Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 18533, 16 January 1924, Page 6
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