“MALE” PARROT
LAYS AN EGG. SYDNEY, September 20. For 25 years a white cockatoo in the possession oi Mrs A. Robertson, of lvent Street, has accepted salutations a s “Cocky,” and been regarded as a, male bird. Yesterday, after three days of being seriously “off colour,” the bird laid an egg! As she was moving the -'age, the bird laid an egg as big as a bantam’s. Since then the bird has kept its feathers milled, and its air is unmistakably on b of matronly dignity.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 5
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