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Show FETE SNAKE KILLERS Secretary Birds From South Africa Af-rica Do Tricks at Zoo. Reptiles Destroyed With Neatness and Despatch by Feathered Flying Animal The Keepers Are Astonished. Nr York Two olll, Inl anake kill era. who have been ndded to the nil Intl. n at the Hronx Zoolngh a I g.ir.ien. give an I'Xblblllon of hnw aeip.nl. cm he h I ti 1 it with neatiie.H an, I do. p.iich. The aiiitke klllera tiro kimwu In iiihllhologl.ia na aeerelaty hint, nn) ball irom Houih Alrlcti. The.e iv.n col bore on Saturday They are Hie II l ever ai 'i'ilreU ,y the ,,,,, niun ll.'.eln.'lll. 'Ihe iihi keepera had read ll let al ' I h way In which Iho secreinrv j h'l.li kill aiuikea, bin Ihey bad never! .ii the blrila In union Keeper I lilley. nf Hip unit, Lev hou.o, waa a lltll" akopHrtil iiImmii their e.l,,lls Well," keeper Chill II.- Sliyihr toll) I hlic. "there uie aevi ral tin in . unlit ' nii.kea lying nroiiu l lo,, e In ihe .tore r a back o. .be reptile lion... la-fa give the aecreiariea a chance in show Tl "y did. Knyder guthered up a siniill biilnlle of .nni,, s, put then, In, u h,m, and a cull wu. u,ai. on ih" lieu, un, oia. , i'l.ydor opened the h.nf lllnl llle,l mil a Ihree fool waler sifike. The mo : III! 'it ll lunched Hie II the Mlllke tlti I'd toward Hie close.l window, mil ho", se. relnry brtla miide u tlaah Inr II. - "lake. The male mm, h, ,1 ihe rep III, I rat. hown i uilie Ihe font nl Hie ... . 'ry bird en the .link.-, back I Ju' behind the licnd, mi, In an In i atalit abnut two feel of tall was twlsl I h,g around tho btrd'a legs. There waa 1 a .ivure pork or two, and llt'le waa, left "f Ibti witter anake s head I The tall .lowly utiwoiiii I lt.. f. and ' both the main and female begun to ' make a meal of the dead reptile. j "That'a ulmiit the quicken work I i ever aaw." aald Hnyd-r. and lilley ud itillt.d Hint hla douhta had been re , mm. nl. I When the birds bad finished Hieii ' meal itimiiier anake waa rob a.ed, and the perrormalice waa about Hie aume. I Two inure roptltca met with the same tat", and then the secretary blrila bad onion their fill. After their probationary period nf iiuiratilltie la over they will he put on I xhlhlllon In the ostrich house. They will have a runway alongside the oa trlch corral, ao that they ran get all the air they waul lu miuimor. The lih ds have very long legs nnd nocka Al the base of each of I heir aknlla la II Inllg tlllt of leal hers, which glvi'4 tlieiu Hie aiipcaran if having a quill I" n tltii k at Hie ahh a of their lien, Is A'llh iliem tu Hie aau:e ahlpmi lit I Smith Africa came a inlr o ;!; X. a .mall lllllllilll aolliowlial lo . .cnhllliK a tti.ndrhu. k. The byrax ' .ay. Iitroelnr lliirllatlay, I. really He , oliev lelerle I to HI nllcll In ll, Hilll'lnlea It la ci, mil, no us IS. ,t It .et llttelis airheil lu eic'llelit ennill tl,.,,. nml will he placed on exhibition In th.- colli-. Hon wote iilati an Af in.", on n in e. two gorillas, .mall i.tink hk, an in. al.. with while .tripe, .ile, i' ll, . ir .hi. .. a aprlmihana. which f. t, .i nh. .1 l,y Colonel llonsevell In Is h,.t simy lu Hciihu, rs aa lunklng like a hit; Jn. kralihit, exeefi f.,r a liintt 1 til, mi I tvlo .Inall mol,l'i-)s, nue a I ii.i I , I. Ihe nther kimwu as ll velvet Tl,.-e last nr.- very .us , , - :.',, in c.,1,1. and will bo hard tc I. , , In r. , |