Show I j tT This I JiMS Is Unus Unusual 1 1 L 4 I A bird that displays something of the languor of the tropics is described de scribed b by Dr T. T A. A Jagger director of oC the thc Hawaiian volcano observatory tor tory Evidently finding sitting on Its eggs too exacting the malau bird a unique Inhabitant of one of the thc Tonga Islands digs a hole three to five fI feet deep in the shape of the thc warm volcanic sand lays las long pink egg in the bottom scratches her tier way Ott out filling the hole behind h her ier r with sand and lets nature do the rest The sun heats the sand to from 85 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit If the thc natives do not molest the egg and itis it itis itis is allowed to hatch the young bird digs its own way out The egg is the size of that of a goose In another effort to save labor different hens reoccupy the same mme holes over and over oyer The Thc malau bird is a small bush hen lien of the thc tribe which has nas another r representative in Aus Aus- The zoological name means big foot The Tle malau has large arge yellow jellow legs with claws adapted for digging It is about the thc size of oC a small mall Leghorn hen with a black bod body and small scrawny head Its whistle resembles that of a quail The trans-Asian trans expedition a L French with which the i National Geographic society ty is cooperating co cooperating co- co operating hat an amazing variety of m modern r l devices Je ces in lii its equipment equipment- radio tractor motor cars sound re recording recording re- re cording apparatus natural color cameras electric lights and fans a amobile amobile mobile hospital etc Yet when the seven cars were I ready to leave S Syria ria the cook found he lie had no means of callIng call call- lim lug Ing the 25 members to meals Dr Jo John m Oliver Olivcr LaGorce vice president of oC the National Geographic society who was in to see sec the ex expedition cx- cx st start rt came to th the rescue with a a. camel bell he had purchased I 1 in Damascus as a souvenir The old brass camel bell of a type for centuries carried by ships of the desert a symbol of or a a. passing day in Asiatic life now tells the expedition members to come and get it three times dally daily The expedition is in Teheran capital of Persia and ex expects expects ex- ex I to leave for Meshed Pcr Persia ia and Herat Afghanistan this week |