Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 19 | Greeley Has Live Ornithorhynchus

i GREELEY HAS LIVE By ny The T Telegrams Telegram's Nest t Tlc ELE Colo Coio Tan Jan t tf The first sight fight of ot tho the famous Australian animal or 01 bird bird known as as tho the plat platypus pus that Greeley ever el had was as given b by J Jesse Jesse- ess Williams son of ot Mr and Mrs Irs Eugene Williams of ot this place who has just returned from Australia Tho The animal I I is a combination of bird fish tish and hea beast t. t It has soft fur over Its back Is web footed with claws has a duck duckbill duckbill bill bUl and bristles s liko hog nog bristle for tor a tail tall and lays eggs egg's It spends part of or it time on lal land d but mostly Inhabits the tho water Mr Williams purchased two specimens specimens specimens mens of an old fisherman In Australia He will keep one of them and donate th the other to some Borne museum of ot Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado ratIo possibly tho the state t teachers teachers' col- col lego lege