People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — New Varieties of Birds. [ARTICLE]

New Varieties of Birds.

Gov. MacGregor discovered on his recent tour through British New Guinea several new varieties of birds, including a new kind of bird of paradise. On Mount Scratchley, 11,000 feet above the sea, larks were found, and vegetation corresponding to that of a temperate zone.

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