Show Muse museum tun alas AIas has no pink headed duck debit that rings like n boll bell A ademeit a leer deer that barks like n dog tho the mor monkey they which haq ha a military orvaul bation and tile the which Is IB described as the fittest animal in the world are among the sped mens from india turned over to tho the american museum of natural history i by it 9 varnar varna of the V faun thorpe expedition but alast alas t the aln pink headed duck wits waa conspicuous conspicuously by its absence the plait pink headed duck wa wap really tho the main pur 1 pose of the scientists they hunted the pink headed d duck tick through gh alie jungles and swamps of nepal neat near the himalayas JIma layns wath fifty elephants arid a thousand men but have a glimpse of a water fowl with a head of the right tint there are six sit stuffed pink headers ducks in the british museum but none elsewhere this expedit expedition iol wa was 3 formed chiefly to provide tile the american Muse Alus eurn of natural history with this d fowl but the hunters came to 6 tine the conclusion that jt etwas ayas ex 1 they gw swarmed through c i t and marsh wa with hundreds rid reds of tons of pachyderms and armies of natives terrifying hundreds of varieties of water birds rose with strange squawks thoy they interested a number of offered rewards of rupees or 70 ond and sent squads of hunters huntera in e every ver direction where pink headed ducks were reported they yee tooled fooled amalu a and nd again by a pink theader duck the red crested pol chard tut but bagged none with the die true coral shade mr harhay said sath that the quest of tho the pink headed beaded duck would be ba contini ted when the expedition starts again this fall in of little known lani mals oneff these Is tho the burgh deer whose horns have been brought in b by n natives at alves but bu which I 1 has a is been caught or klied jiffies byr by whiles another object of the new expedition Is the capture of a giant land tortoise chieh lin ani 3 left leff footprints fifteen to eighteen inches long but has haa never been seen by b dpn so far as Is known thesa and waier other rare specimens ire are to be bagged it ii in the course of an overland march through n country ahern no white afir has been before and wh I 1 native t uvo ahey ahey will go from burma south through burma across the tack plateau into slam and along the deping river to bangkok |