The outstanding exhibit of the caged bird show held at the Auckland Town Hall in the week-end wa • the be t bird in the foreign section. A noble crested creature, it come, from Wes Africa whore it is commonly known as tho clock bird, since at sunrise—when all good people leave their beds—he starts calling. This feathered alarm clock of Nature has tho high-sounding name of tOuracou.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 171, 22 July 1939, Page 4
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