The telescope, so far from being, as is generally averred, the outcome of the famous experiment of Galileo, was known at least three hundred years before his time. A hoopoe, a bird with a crown of feathers rarely seen in Great Britain, flew in at the open window of the Manor House. Heston, .Middlesex, and was captured by .Mr P. H. Browne, who set it free after examination.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 10
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68Untitled Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 10
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