A LONG TAIL
Visitors , to Taronga Park Zoo in Svdney can hardly believe their eyes .when they see the' rarest attraction of all just now, the Yokohama cock, with a tail sevon feet long. These specimens are rarely seen outside Japan. The overgrown feathers are the tail coverts and not the true tail feathers. The bird's remarkable tail is only on view fpr two hours each day. Then, as is the custom in Japan, the tail is wrapped up and held together by rubber bands, so that the bird can eat and play to its heart's content with the hen, who is a very homelv-looking bird, very different from lier mate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23375, 17 June 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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111A LONG TAIL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23375, 17 June 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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