Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — RISKS LIFE TO RESCUE BIRD [ARTICLE]

RISKS LIFE TO RESCUE BIRD

leveler in British Guiana Plunges .Sf Into Water to Save Specimen -—■4'--- for London Zoo. London. —An interesting addition to the birds on exhibition at the London zoological gardens is about to be made by Sir William Ingram from Georgetown, British Guiana. His representative, Wilfrid Frost, has returned from an expedition into the Interior of British Guiana with living specimens of the extremely rare bird, cock of the rock. The birds, with only stuffed specimens of which the public is familiar, are about the size of pigeons. The plumage Is a beautiful bright red, though the tall and tips of the wings are dark brown, while the feathers on the head form a pretty arch. j n Mr. Frost and his party had an adventurous journey. They were almost lost in a bush swamp and on two occasions disaster almost overtook them by water. At one time their canoe collided with a submerged log and the man at the bow was precipitated into the river. At another Mr. Frost, in his endeavor to save the cages containing the birds from toppling over, ijad a narrow escape from being drowned himself. Before starting on this expedition Mr. Frost took a number of birds of paradise from New Guinea to Tobago for Sir William Ingram, who is experimenting with the breeding of these birds in the West Indies.