Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — CAPTURE TWO VICIOUS BIRDS [ARTICLE]

CAPTURE TWO VICIOUS BIRDS

Two Immense Beafowl Caught After Struggle by California Fisherman —Made Fierce Fight.

Los Angeles, Cal. —Two vicious sea birds of immense size, entirely unknown to naturalists of this section, were caught off the pier at Long Beach, and will be carefully kept until possible identification can be made.

Their wing measurement is 7 1-2 feet from tip to tip, the bodies are brown and the heads white, with sharp, powerful hooked bills seven inches long. No seafaring man or fisherman here ever saw anything like them before. 1 The birds were taken by R. H. Floyd while angling for yellow tail. He used large live minnows for bait, and one of the birds seeing it trailing through the water/swooped down and seized the fish. It became hooked anq made a violent struggle to free itself, but did not succeed. Its mate dropped out of the sky and flew to its aid, becoming itself entangled, and both! were hauled up. They made fierce attacks on bystanders, who had to clear away, and were cleared from thd line and caged after a hard struggle.