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Show IMS Laysan Island With Its, Albatross and Its Love Birds Chicago, Aug. 8. Charles A. Corwin of the Field Museum of Natural History His-tory has returned to Chicago from a trip to the Layson islani in the middle mid-dle of the Pacific ocean, which, it is said, has been deserted by every living liv-ing creature except the seabirds. "It has been established that the island is Inhabited by at least eight million birds, the most of -which consist con-sist of two species of albatross," said Mr. Corwin yesterday. "There -were so many birds on the ground, nesting, that wo had to pick, our way to avoid stepping on them. "The Island Is only two miles long and a mile wide. In the center of it is a lagoon of about 200 acres. The rocks that shelve In this lagoon are thickly populated with a species of "love bjid." "We can fully verify the storleB that these strange birds have a peculiar dance which resembles the darky cako walk. They clap their bills together to-gether and waddle about with high stepping antics, ducking their heads first under one wing and then under tho other. All through the dance they whistle and utter weird sounds. |