RARE BIRD SURVIVES STORM.
MAY HAVE ESCAPED FROM ZOO (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, Feb. 5. A rare bird was discovered on thl shore of Lake Taupo during the height of the storm on Sunday. The bird has a long scarlet beak of four inches, a single red tail feather almost two feet in length, and pearly pink plumage. It has been brought to Napier and placed in Cornwall Park, Hastings, pending inquiries. Apparently it is a tropic bird and it is thought possible that it might be what is known as a bosun bird. It is comparatively tame and it is thought it might have escaped from zoological gardens in the Dominion.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1936, Page 3
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