Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — South America’s “Oil Bird." [ARTICLE]

South America’s “Oil Bird."

One of the antmal curiosities of South America is the “oil-bird” or guacharo: it breeds In rock caves on the mainland and one of its favorite haunts Is the island of Trinidad. It lays Us eggs in a nest made of mud. and the young birds are prodigiously fat. The natives melt the fat down in clay pots, and produce from U. a kind of butter. The caves Inhabited by the birds are usually accessible only from the s«»a, and the hunting or them is sometimes an exciting sport.