Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1919 — A Rare Bird. [ARTICLE]

A Rare Bird.

- The white-headed stork, one of the most Interesting and valuable possessions of the London Zoological society, Is dead. It was a native of the Upper or White Nile, and so far as is known the only living specimen of this remarkable bird in Europe. As long ago as 1860 the then British vice consul at Khartoum —Mr. Petherick, himself an Indefatigable naturalist—brought two specimens to London, and those were the first ever seen alive in Britain. After an Interval of many years the present sirdar —Sir Reginald Wingate—presented to the society the specimen which has just died, and which was a familiar object in Qie vicinity of his palace at Khartoum. Visitors to the garden In Regent’s park will recall the 'rather melancholylooking bird in the aviary adjoining the Southern entrance. For long periods it remained almost motionless, save for the twinkle of an extra mobile eye. r •'