The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-27
LITTLE STORIES from
EARLHAM MUSEUM
Many Large American Birds Exhibited Several
of Those Shown Are Now Rare.
well-and sometimes we see birds
we have never seen before.

well-and sometimes we see birds
we have never seen before.
Swans laxative When Dining.
AS we go to the back part of the
ground floor of the museum and
wander around the bird cages, we
see several swans, and swans are
rather rare birds to see. We see
one called the Whistling swan and
are told 1t was a noisy trumpete1
when alive especially when dining
or dressing up (when bird dress
es up, you know, it cleans and
tufts up and smoothes its feathers.)
Close beside this swan is the
Trumpeter swan whose tone is
little sweeter and which is more
rare these days even than its
noisier cousin.
Gull Presented by Moore School.
Here too we see the Herring
gull which was presented TO the
museum over year ago by the
children of Joseph Moore school
1t is a large bird and some boy
thought it was wild goose and
shot it. This bird probably lived
near one of the Great Lakes and
followed vessels up and down the
lakes
Cranes Look as II
They Walked on Stills
Do you like to walk on stills?
The white cranes legs are so
much like stills that he probably
thinks he is walking on them all
the time The one shown in the
museum stands proudly as If he
rather enjoyed standing there and
being admired This bird is one OF
the most rare birds In North Amer
lea and because he makes such
queer, croaking sounds, he is often
called the Whooping Crane. Prob.
ably though. he prefers to be call.
ed the White Crane instead.
The Great Blue Heron is pref
ty bird, and 1t too looks just made
for story books. There are at least
three of these great blue herons In
the museum. This bird is much
prettier to look upon than to listen
to. for it has harsh voice and
croaks and squawks when alive in
a very noisy way. The neck of this
bird Is very, very slender and its
bill looks like sharp knife.
A pelican is here, too, the bird
with the big bill which it uses to
store fish in when it catches more
than 1t can eat all at once. This
bird is a traveller. 1t lives in and
near lakes. or fresh water in the
summer time, and near salt water
In the winter time. Quite a par
ticular bird, isn't it? 1t is one OF
the very largest of American birds
and when people see it far away
they sometimes think they see
sail Its wing spread is eight OF
nine feet.
Laughing Looms Shown.
Several looms are shown in the
bird cases. They are handsome
black and white birds with black
bandage-like collars. They are
known for a strange shaky noise
which they sometimes make which
sounds like ghostly laughter.
Vanity Kills Lovely Bird.
The snowy egret is shown, a
dainty lovely bird which is fast
being killed off. The reason this
bird is being killed is because il
wears some very pretty feathers
women want to wear on their hats.
not thinking, perhaps not knowing
that the mother bird has to be kill
ed to get the feathers and that aft
err it is killed the baby birds die.
Pheasants and owls are shown,
too, and eagles and geese, wild
turkeys and wild ducks are exhibit
ed too among the larger birds Be
sides there are hundreds of small
birds shown which are very inter
esting to see.