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Show Bird Eats Own Feathers. A strange bird that eats its own feathers is one of 1S8 specimens living liv-ing in Porto Rico, reported recently by Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian institution. institu-tion. It is the Antillean grebe, a common com-mon bird of the Island. Every specimen spe-cimen examined by Doctor Wetmore had masses of feathers in its stomach, stom-ach, says Popular Science Magazine. They had been plucked and swallowed and were apparently digested without difficulty. |