Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1918 — Sheep-Killing Parrots at Large. [ARTICLE]

Sheep-Killing Parrots at Large.

Not long ago no little, consternation was created by the escape at San Francisco of two keas, pr sheep-killing parrots, which were being shipped from Australia to the Smithsonian institution, at Washington, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The birds liberated themselves by splintering the slats of their wooden crates with their powerful beaks. The federal authorities offered a reward of SIOO for each bird taken dead or alive. This species of parrot has made Itself an enemy of man In both Australia and New Zealand by slaying sheep for the sake of eating parts of the flesh, of winch It is very fond, and there bounties are paid for killing the birds.