The Arizona sentinel., 1883-07-07

situated r--t -r1r u.liaS from here. and scores o5 people Q
 every day to vieig its-.-Ehergssr twenty-five ostrio1es nov 0u ta farn. which are separated it pairs, in psdd0cks, or We hen
 m "cOrrals." Of course you re
 member WOOdward'S Garden il
 San Francisco. The Superinten
 dent not having completed hi
 arrangement placed them there
 for a time before bringing them
 down here. and thought it very
 kind of the managers of the gar.
 den to take care of them free O
 expense. but he was afterward,
 told that during the three
 months that they were there, they brought in twenty thousand dollars. The birds are not very pleasing in appearance now, a. their feathers have just been plucked, but in about six months the new feathers will have grown in again. When they first came here, they were all placed in the same corral, and had only one fence around them, so that we could go right up and touch them, Gf.we had courage enough) but afterwards the birds became very quarrelsome and the visitors So troublesome about pulling out feathers that they were obliged to separate the birds and put two fences tround them. The males are very vicious and have very peculiar ways C. showing 'hgIr T. temper. Wheu cue gets &ugry he kneels dowr. which is dsH- by bending tle legs f.r#afd. throws his head back. f lp5 hls wings furiouslv y. twisting 0i- three feet of neck into every inn aginabIe shape, and hIssiug loud- ly. The heads are very small. but they have beautiful! large. bright eyes. They fight excIusi Vely with the feet. which have two tOes-one very large and the other small, and are very strong. It is quite amusing to watch them eat. They swallow d quan- tity of food and it forms ball in the throat, then they lift up their heads and this ball rolls around 10 the back of the neck and down into the stomach, which, it is said, is situated somewhere in it's back. 1 should like very much to dissect an ostrich and see if this Is really true. It does not seem possible 10 me, but I SUD- pose it is so. They eat corn, buck wheat, alfalfa turnIps, corn and other vegetables, besides cracked shells, &c, of which they r very fond. They are very much afraid of dogs and Chinamen, especially of the former. They seem to know by instinct wheu- ever d dog is near them, and are in great distress while It reinains The female lays an egg every other day, until she has fifteen, and then she sits on them unless they are taken from her. When allowed to sit, the male takes he place of the female at night while she eats. The eggs weigh about a pound and {! half apiece, and are valued at one hundred uOitdIS tdCiLs l DSllSNS tIl0 Su periutendent intends to hatch the eggs in an incubator. Those stories about riding ostriches are all a hoax. It is something that has never been tried to any eX- tent.
 1 don't believe I have descri- bed the looks of the birds to you yet. They are very large and heavy, weighing from two to three hundred pounds. Their small heads are OrnamIted by large bill, shaped like ducks. and are set on a long snake-iike looking neck, which is covered with hair. Theis bodies are, of course, clothed with feathers, which, On the females, are dark