1931-07-21 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL

MIGRATION AND HOMING OF BIRDS | QUARANTINE LAWS

A MYSTERIOUS POWER THAT.....

BAFFLES MAN.

AT HOME.

Reasons Why they Must Stand.

WOULD-BE INVASIONS.

necessitate long continued oversea travel, like that, for instance, of the lapwing ringed in Cumberland which was recovered in Newfound- Anti-quarantine correspondence land, as recorded first in the Man-Is, just at present, ut full flood. chester Guardian in January, 1928. Year after-year at holiday travel This wind-assisted abnormal jour-time it is the same. ney of some 2,200 miles was, it was

Intending overseas/visitors want. estimated, accomplished in 22 to 24 ing to bring over their dogs write, hours continuous flight.

begging for "inside information" According to the late W. W. Cook, which will show them how deton the American golden plover, regular-tion for six months can be avoided.

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AIRMAN'S FATAL

· CRASH.

Last Words to Wife: "Very, Very Careful.”

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JIMMY LOOKS FOR A BRIDE

She Has Already Chosen Him.

HE IS WORTH £2,0001

more than 51 a pound.

Pigmy Jimmy at the Zoo is worth

Holman, a famous American air The last words of "Speed" man, to his wife were "very, very, The largest ordinary hippo that very careful"

dame to Regent's Park weighed before a crowd of several thousand him up. Jimmy can only be about Two hours later he had crashed four tons when the Zoo had fattened people when he failed to come out a quarter that size. of a 300-mile-an-hour dive.

He is worth £2,000, and is getting Holman was the first American extremely Interesting.

Next Spring this young man's

The long journeys accomplished by trained homer pigeons, and the much greater distances covered by wild birde when on migration, won derful though they are when we consider all facts, are more or less familiar to ornithologists. We learn, however (writes T. A. C. in the Manchester Guardian) through a message from Budapest, something different from either; something which will surprise them in Budo- pest, although the Hungarian Gov. ly covers 2,000 miles in a non-stop People over here write in similar airman, both as a mall plane pilot. erament bureau of the study of fight in its southward autumnal strain on behalf of friends abroad, and as a stunt pilot. He started fancy will lightly turn to thoughts bird migration is one of the moat journey, and the Pacific form of the active in Europe.

Those who already recognise the the aviation world in 1919 by loop of love, and already an eye is be same bird 2,400 between Alaska and hopelessness. of seeking remission ing. a three-engined, passenger aero- ing kept open for a coy young Two mandarin ducks were shot Hawaii. The return migration is of the quarantine regulations send, plane five times, and then flying it thing to be introduced to the gay la the Zala district of South-taken more overland. western Hungary, and on their legs

Whatever explanation is suggest or indignant letters, urging that made 1,433 consecutive loops in an-

according to their mood, plaintive on its back. Previously he had bachelor. were numbered finge that proveded these long flights of migratory something be done about it.

Jimmy has had an adventurous that they had flown from St. James' wild birds, whether they travel by

other type of ranchine, Park. Now the mandarin duck is inherited instinct, find their way by be in vain. The six months' quar Some of the spectators who were

Such requests must necessarily

life, but matrimony is going to be Mystery surrounds his death, his greatest adventure native neither here nor in Hungary; sight or other sense, or are uncon antine imposed on all imported within a few feet of him when he walking by the side of a Liberian Three years ago, only, somebody ita original home is in the Far East sciously drifted, like the lapwings doge is strict, and is not to be crashed, said, that he was hanging river discovred a baby hippo whose China and Japan. The beauty of which croased the Atlantic, we can evaded even by those in authority out of the cockpit, and appeared to ma had just gone round the corner its plumage, especially of the extra- not explain the behaviour of the or of exaited station. ordinary chestaut and black "fan," mandarin ducks in the same way.

be striving to reach the control of or was gossipping with her, next. Apparently they were deliberate introduced for a definite purpose held."

The quarantine regulations were the machine. An inquiry is being door neighbour. homers, though they had had no and out of necessity proved in the

Jimmy' was only three days old. preliminary training similar to that last century, and without doubt HOW THE TANKS WERE NAMED.self carried off bodily and dumped and when he suddenly found him- given to racing pigeons.

They had been brought from they have achieved it:

down on the deck of a ship he took Hungary, probably in closed crates this has been at the inconvenience they came to be constructed, was all part of this new experience

If it is a matter for regret that How tanks were named, and how it quite philosophically. but certainly not by any means which would allow them to see their of thousands of people, it is a mat-, told to the

lifer: Southampton Round

curiously erected wing plumes when the wings are closed, has made it for very many years

a favourite bird for ornamental waters; indeed, Aldrovandi tells that Japanese en.

voya brought it to Italy in the Royal Ringa.

sixteenth century.

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"

wrapped up in Percy II..

A Way of Her Own.

It was

mandarin way; they had an urge to return to/ter far satisfaction from the point Table, by Sir William Tritton, one London Zoological Society by the Early in 1930 some

He was forthwith offered to the ducks were obtained from Hungary, Hungary, and got there. Where of view of the nation as a nation of, the engineers responsible for and by the special request of the, they had been exported from I do, of dog owners.

their development.

woman who owned him, and al King they were provided with the not know, but they were shot near Great Britain is to-day one of "When I sent out the drawings though on offer of £1,500 was ordinary numbered and addressed the south-eastern end of the great, the few countries of the world in to the machine shop," he said, "proffered the way home she metal rings which are used for Lake Balaton, for which they may is non-existent. As is generally for Mesopotamia, and the man on There

which the canine disease of rabies marked, the plans Water Carrier stuck to her free gift idea. marking migratory birds, under the have been aiming by some unknown, white rabies is infectious the job abbreviated that to 'tank'

But aboat Jimmy's wife-to-be. "British Birds" marking scheme. plained sense of orientation.

are three simpering and can be communicated to moat I built the first tank at my own But Bay is hardly a flapper, Jean These rings, in addition to having

Sense of Direction.

aspirants: Jean, Diana, and May, stamped on them "Witherby High Indeed, we have in the perform. animals, and to man, it has its expense, but-the-War Office was not do not think somehow it will Holborn, London," and their regis.ance of these two birds something origin always in a dog.

enthusiastic. They told me. I was tered number, had the initials that points to a knowledge of direc By subjecting all dogs entering silly, and, in any event, they could be Jean. She is too much

the birds were tion, a consciously desired direc the country from abroad to six not be built in time to be of any "G..R." added; finged on January 20, 1930. The tion, a goal aimed for; surely it is months' detention, keeping them use. In the war, two birds shot at Zala carried these strong evidence of a power of for that time under strict veterin "Far from that being the case, royal rings.

orientation. This faculty some of ary supervision, and regularly we made 2,700 at Lincoln The Diana is left. Diana was in the us feel sure exists in wild birds, examining them for rabies sympides for their construction cams Zoo in 1913, and goodness knowa and explains how they find their toms, Great Britain aims to pre from the caterpillar vehicles which what her age may be. Something way on migration journeys. vent the disease from again ap had been built for sugar growing in over twenty, say, at least. A dear

Experiments with homer pigeons pearing.

Paraguay and other countries." pigmy old compared with Jimmy have never proved conclusively that

Muzzling Orders.

When Diana gets offended she has such power exists, but the carefully Fifty years ago rabies was in ciling British dog fanciers to the a way of her own. If she sets her arranged investigations of Watson the accepted order of things in restrictions which hitherto had mind on this youthful. Liberian and Lashley in America produced most European countries. The been thought irksome, unwarranted Adonis the old thing will have him In September, 1920, a widgeon unexpected results. They marked disease was generally prevalent on and in the nature of grandmotherly right enough. And no leaving out was marked, a bird reared from noddy and sooty terns during their the increase. In Britain the legislation.

the word "obey" at the altar for eggs collected in Cumberland, and breeding season, which they cap. public became alarmed by the fre Dog owners were not long in him. He says that Diana's been was turned down with one wing tured at the nests on the Tortugas quency and severity of outbreaks, realising that in the matter of married before. clipped to keep it near at hand until of Gulf of Mexico keys. Some of and in 1886 the first anti-rables rabies "the Irksomeness of preven its new fight feathers grew. In these birds were taken in closed to institute local muzzling orders. tion was as nothing to the trouble May, 1926, it was shot on the Pet- cases for as far as 850 miles north But a rabid dog, even muzzled, involved in cure chora, North-eats Russin. Two of their home and over seas with is still a danger to the community! If further demonstration is re. others of the sama hand-reared out landmarks that were beyond the He may not be able to bite, but quired of the wisdom of quarantine quiet home lad before very long.

in his saliva is the source of avil, restrictions, it is to be found in

The flight may seem a long one, probably little under 900 miles, but we know neither which way the birds travelled nor how long they took over their journey. As a master of fact it is not a specially long trip for ringed birds, even for

ducks.

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brood were killed in the Autumn of 1921 on Rockcliffe Marsh, at no great distance from where they were turned down.

Another widgeon, marked when nearly mature at Tamworth in October, 1916, reached Uralsk north of the Caspian, in April 1918 In both cases the distances covered must have been double that from London to Hungary..

Northwich to Natal.

normal range of the birds.

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The majority returned home-in

and the chance of infection is little the fact that during the past nine years seven cases of rabies have

one experiment thirteen out of diminished. fifteen birds released. There can

"It's the fashion nowadays," she y "for some of us older girls to have the pick of the boys. Jimmy for me.”

And

Jimmy Pigmy is going to be.'a

We discovered this through bit been discovered among Imported DANCE OF THE SEVEN

be little doubt that these terms ter experience, and in 1897 the dogs in quarantina. possessed a sense of direction, and Board of Agriculture brought in It only required one of these that the maternal or parental in its Importation of Dogs" Order. dogs to have its freedom to infact stinct stimulated the sense.

This provided that no dog a whole countryside. At least

The Lane the Drake Knew. brought to Great Britain from any two of these cases were wealthy There are jokes amongst pigeon foreign country would be permitted women's lap-doga. flyers about birds that failed to to land, "unleas its landing Is A dog Infected with the germ of accomplish the return on the wing authorised by a licence of the rables may not show symptoms of These are but short tripscom-but arrived at last with "segs" ou Minister previously obtained the disease for six months; hence pared with the travels of some of their feet, having, walked home. When landed it should, "for a the fixing of that period of time

And there in an actual case of am period of six calendar montha..for enforced detention. bulatory orihtation or homing by bc datained and isolated at the Essential Unwisdom.

our common swallows, for no fewer than nine ringed birds have been discovered in their Winter quarters

in South Africa. The eighth bird

le particularly Interesting to Man-

chester readers for it was ringed as

as a nestling by Mr. A. W. Boyd

1329.

Although we cannot be sure, it is probable that both birds went Bouth, perhaps as far as the Cape, in the. Autumn of 1927, returned in Spring of 1928, and again visited Africa. At any rate, we do know that some of our swallows get very

VEILS

Clergyman's Daughter

în “Salome,”

AUDIENCE GASP. Oscar Wilde's banned "Salome" still raises Httle eddies of "scañdál." a drake, recorded from his own expense of ite

ised comment whenever it is per owner upon pre- Probably the most frequently formed, for the public ands it dial. experience by John Buroughs. mises in the occupation or under suggested modification of the exist cult not to be shocked by the Dance The drake was carried in a bag the control, of a veterinary surgeon ing law is in the direction of a of the Seven Veils, says the London from one farm to another over two which shall have been previously reduction to three months. The Daily Express. miles of country which it had never approved In writing by the Minis-essential unwisdom of this is in The paradoxical thing about the Been, but Immediately it was reter for that purpose."

dlented by the fact that in the production at the Gate Theatre,

at Frandley, near Northwich, on June 18, 1927, and the bird was leased it turned its head home In the same year, 1897, a rables soven discovered cases referred to however, is that the actress who found dead in Natal on January 3, wards, refused to have anything to order was made, and within a few none had been in quarantine less plays the part of the corrupt young 1929. Another WAR marked in do with the other ducks, and for months three-fifths of the local than three and a half months. Carmarthenshire in July, 1927, and three days tried to get out of the authorities, of England and Wales. In one instance, a dog, detained deduction unveiled before Herod, is princess, and dances the dance of was found exhausted at Cradock, enclosure in which it had been con had adopted powers to enforce on suspicion longer than the the twenty-four-year-old daughter Cape Province, on January 28, fined. At the end of that time local muzzling orders.

allotted time, was definitely verified of a clergyman, and has not long Burroughs determined to see what By 1902 rabies In this country a rabid six and a half months been down from Oxford. Pap it would do, let it have freedom, had been entirely eradicated, and after admission to the quarantine and followed.

Margaret Rawlings, black-haired was unknown until near the clóss station. f Once on its way homewards it of the great warra

and white skinned, made the Yau) It has to be remembered that six lence gasp when she first appeared? 00 was scared by a dog and made a Not a few dogs at that time were months is a minimum period, sub-behind the seven veils. The veils detour and once it took a wrong smuggled into the country with Ject to fextension by the Ministry in this production are not draped turning, though in the right directhe object of "dodging quarantine of Agriculture in certain circum round the dancer, but are hung tion. When at last it came to a Soldiers on leave were not at a stances. Last year a passenger onerous the stage, and withdrawn one. far south and return again to the road on which it had rambled it as to find ways and means of board a vessel en route locality in which they were reared, raced home

getting through" with their doggy mouth from India was bitten by moving limbs of Salome, dressed In to Ply by one to discover the rhythmically so that they can manage very long

a dog, which was destroyed as a little more than a handful of pearls. flights without being troubled by

A Smuggled Degrables suspect to be she dances with an increasing any handicap from the ring..

In September, 1918, rabies broke Subsequent laboratory examina wildness to obtain the head of John Nor are these known journeys to

out at Plymouth almost certainly tion of the carcase confirmed the the Baptist; until the last vall is be compared with those of some of domesticated or semi-domesticated Introduced by a smuggled dog presence of the sense, and in torn aside, and she sink trium the Arctic waders, whose Winter species was brought from Hungary within a short period many parts, view of its long incubation period phantly exhausted, to be covered by quarters are at the southern ex- to London and found the way back of the south-west were involved six other dogs travelling by the slaves with a white shift and crown- tremity of land in Africa, South without assistance from railway Devon, Cornwall Hampshire and same boat and possibly exposed toed with scarlet flowers. America, and Australia. Wo can guides or""""Cook." Judge only by the fact of the pre- Bome Instinct, some senze of Dorset, and even as far away as infection had to undergo aine sence of the birds in these southern direction guided the birds, Ware Vigorous steps were necessary. Actually quarantine

months quarantine.

poses far lands, species which are known only the birds, capable of employing stazzling was enforced throughout Jess hardship for both dog and to nest in the extreme north, some sense, receiving some guiding the affected areas,

Ally Aupposed. "All_the_passages" mentioned are | impressing about which we have an more or less, overland, and. do

CLARA BOW

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