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Show A Queer Bird. During a visit to New Zealand Dr. Fristodi, succeeded in obtaining' a specimen of the quaint and ulmost extinct ex-tinct kibi bird. Tho bird is somewhat like an ostrich, but only the size of a crow; it has no wings at all, and is coverod with fur-like, short-striped feathers. Anothor peculiarity about the kibi is tho fact that its egg is larger than one-third of its body. He also succeeded in bringing homo some Maori skulls, which are difficult to obtain, ob-tain, on account of the manner in which the natives bury their dead. When tho bodies hava been so long in the ground that all tho flesh has fallen from tho skeleton, they unearth them and carry thetn into tha interior of the forests, where they aro deposited de-posited in natural caves, which are very difficult to find. Any one discovered dis-covered with one is sure to bo killed. |