Show huntsman lan brings rare birds will donate to zoological gardens the game came he bagged from long hunting expedition in africa cleveland 0 0 bronzed by tropic suns kenyon V painter prominent cleveland club man has just returned from a world tour coincident with hla his arrival in cleveland a truck load land of boxes and cages were unloaded at his bis estate on shaker heights the boxes contained live specimens of the rarest tropical birds the finest collection over ever brought to the untied united states most of the birds being the first of their kind to reach this country accompanied by his bis wife painter searched the orient for months ills own efforts brought him scores of pec linens and others he obtained rom rem natives who villo brought them down to the coast from regions where white men are almost un unknown knowin singapore many of the specimens painters collection arrived in cleveland in good condition many of the birds will be forwarded to the national zoological gardens in washington to which painter has haa been a frequent contributor birds of all sizes and colors flit the cages in painters aviary pigeons from burma as aa large as chickens that lay lar eggs of proportionate size are in a cage beside one containing mites of birds from rom ceylon which look looft more like illie insects long legged birds with short abort bills pon grotesquely with short abort legged birds with IOUS ions bills billa find and all in 10 form and coloring look like comic opera members of the bird kingdom the composite sound of bird voices from the collection resembles a chinese funeral march only one note of discords enters into painters satisfaction over hla his trip after a long search of romeo borneo sumatra and java he got three specimens of the malay water deer one of the rarest of animals at san francisco government officials would not allow them to be because of a pr prohibitory 0 hibi tory lory regulation the deer are only ten inches high but were classified as deer nevertheless the now new york zoological gardens and the san ban francisco zoo are now engaged in a competitive effort effert to cause the government to relent abd allow them to take the animals |