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Show Roseate Spoonbill, Rare Bird of Tropics Is Found in Utah NK of 'tho handsomest ami rarest 1 Oblrd ever found In t'tah was brounht Into the city yesterday by Joseph Condley of "Wemlovrr, l'tah. It was identified by Claude T. Haines mid N. W. Reynolds an a Koseat n Spoonbill. "The Itoseate Spoonbill (Aaja ujaj. Linn.) Is the only representative of the I'latab'ldae. or Spoonbill, in A me r leu." Mr, Ha r new said. "It is almost extinct, being, like Its relative, the ibis, eon-Mlantlv eon-Mlantlv soukM for lis indcierlbably beautiful beau-tiful 'phinmKe-. The bird Inhabits the count of ihn r.ulf nnd soul hern A t Inn tic tn ten ii nd southwu! d throughout f lie tropics. This particular speehr.cn wus taken lit Weiuiover, where five, of the birds have appeared on Mr. Comtle plnce. This Is the flist time it baa been found in t'tah and, indeed. I know of i,o other records of lis occurrence north of Texan. "It has rt wide. Mai Mil. naked head toe long and shirhtly webbed, nnd n stlKht crent on I her ltwer neck its pium-nRe pium-nRe is u delicate pink, becoming white on the shoulders and neck, and with Klossy red lesser wim: co,.r(.; and upper tall covei-t s. The t bird has a letig i b ,,r it bout thirty - three inches, and w on hi a t -trnct nt tent ion nuv where for its i are del lea ey of phi mane. It merely m o e-i thnt one can never te'l what mav happen In tlie d'.-.trlbi:tlon of wild Mfe." |