COCKATOO CENTENARIAN
LONDON, Dec. 21. Major J. R. Aspinall, of Clitheroe, near Manchester, reports that a cat killed an Australian white cockatoo, aged 109. The bird was indisputably a septuagenarian when purchased in Adelaide by Mr. Aspinull’s aunt in 1894, and taken to England on a sailing ship. The cockatoo laid tinea egls 3 when she was 88.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 7
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58COCKATOO CENTENARIAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 7
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