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Show Bird Eat Own Feathers. A strange bird that eats its own feathers Is one of 18S specimens liv-lug liv-lug in Porto Iiico, reported recently by Dr. Alexander Wetmore. assistant secretary of the Smithsonian institution. institu-tion. It is the Antillean grebe, a common com-mon bird of the Island. Every specimen spe-cimen examined by Doctor Wetmore had masses of feathers In its stomach, stom-ach, says Popular Science Magazine. Thev had ':een plucked and swallowed and were apparently digested without difficulty. |