Show ornithologists havo leavo just succeeded I 1 in finding the nest and c ggs of the rare surf bird of alaska though tho the bird itself has been known to science science for a century and a half tho the kansas city times reports porta ro not only this but tho the mother of this rare species is a feminist according to joseph dixon of tho the museum luscum of vertebrate zoology at tho the university of california rather father surf bird does almost all of tho hatching telling of the eggs and puts up a much moro more valiant fight in their defebbo when the lionie nest is molested than liis his wife declares tho olio ornithologist the nest and several beveral breeding pairs were found on tho the slopes elopes of mount mckinley in in i alaska during a recent held flold expedition tho the first richt of this bird to bo be found f by white mon men was discovered by a member of the party parky who almost stopped on it further observations of other shore birds brooding breeding in tho the north indicated said mr air dixon that tho the care of tho the eggs is ia a 0 more regular practice tico among birds of this thia typo tyco than has previously been suspected |