Show flightless CORMORANT at any rate a bird I 1 A new bird or of a species hitherto unknown has just h i been discovered naturalists Natura lists arc much the f interested not to say excited over find because tho world has so that to stumble on I 1 thoroughly explored r anything new in tho way of birds beasts or fishes is a and triumphant i achievement was made on one ot TT the discovery i the galapagos islands a little archip cTr i COO miles i go in the pacific ocean about esic of ecuador to which they belong 1 the new bird is a large waterfowl it belongs to the cormorant family but 1 is very remarkable in that it is the only s kind of cormorant that cannot fly i to be precise the birds were not dis i covered on the island but on the reefs I 1 around it land is only four miles away but owing to fliehr inability to fly the birds have never set toot on it they paddle about on the reefs go fishing i whenever 1 they want to and are hap t addition to sheltering undiscovered birds the galapagos islands arc rich in tats and tortoises on charles and chatham islands thousands of pussy cats every one of them entirely black livo in of lava near the shore and pet a living by hunting lor crabs and fishes still nora arc chant land tortoises come of which have been known 0 o weigh eight hundred pounds the islands arc named in their honor galapago being spanish for tortoise inability to fly adl a minor distinction new birds amt flightless birds rare are not unknown recently there was captured specimen t so far ak his record af a flightless tl it books like it and lias a cari oua kind 0 bill with ft email acil bomb it ulfat blands crosswise though it lv t all its feath cT awing loa oft toft t and it n a first rate and ne of adl traits a fr i bastion being to steal everything it can dav leak H killed were art british inhere they lio drawn cd the brought pounds in dresden and pounds as said to have been refused for the fourth bui new has alwaes been th of lightley light les birds II 11 was from alie fulip ax afore hie faist nit tinnia mad f upon the earth and a nd consequently there were no p there whatever except few bats until man arrild arr ivd in the country for barda it was a veritable paradise a four enemy to fear and many species founie so little uc for their aings that those almost disappeared which was to be entirely extinct until the fourth specimen turned up the other dav quite possibly there arc others still surviving another flightless bird of new zealand is the wall keown apteryx which is norbit noi bit like any other feathered creature in the world there were several of the extinct moa the largest of them attaining a height of 14 feet and a weight of fully it was a harmless creature and even helpless acin with out power of night and slow and clumsy in all its movements besides it ws extremely stupid it was remarkable kable for its enormous legs and feet which mere so heavy that not run fist and it extermination wag only a ques tion of 1 cry time alien arrived on the scene As many asoo skeletons of birds fairly complete have been dug out of a single swamp and alie american national museum nc washington possesses a thigh bone that is more than 3 feet long the eggs of these huge fowls were effual in size to i ostrich eggs and about halt A dozen of them aie now preserved in A alk hat would just about make a suitable eggcup egg cup to hold the contents of one I 1 the bird that is not a hyer stands a chance for survival in these days jt is now jut about sixty years since the great aul became extinct and an egg of this specie h worth today pounds there are about sev enty two of tho aga in existence and the last one sold was disposed of at auction in london in 1901 tor pound in 1000 a perfect egg brought 33 pounds yet was a time in the early part of th nineteenth century when people used to collect great anuk aggi eggi on funk island by thousand tor food while the helpless help lesi foli aluch could not fly lit all though chev were wonderful wi miner were utilized wholesale as bait for fishermen |