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Sir

In the good company of the late Paul Chater of enduring memory we have always believed in Hong-Kong, always had faith in its destiny, and we see no reason to-day to change that belief, abandon that faith. We know that here there

Lecture.

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932.

BIRDS EGGS

THEIR COLOUR PROBLEM.

Evolution of the Reptilian's Egg.

A plea for practical interest in chick on its emergerica from the

are many things not done that natural history was made by Mr.shell was fully featured and smaller might be done, many things done W. E. Wait, Deputy Chief Secre- that should not be done, and many tary, at a lecture recently delivered things ill done that might be done on "Birds' Eggs," at the Govern

better.

But show us any spot in

the wide world struggling through ment Training College, Colombo. these universal hard times with less) There was a large gathering pre- was followed unemployment, less poverty, less sent and the lecture

Mr. E. G. T. suffering among the proletariat than with great interest. in Hong-Kong to-day, in spite of Holainger, President of the Govern- the fact that we are not really ament Training College Biological Society, under whose auspices the

spare

gree.

when the newly hatched nestlings analler also when the clutches were were undeveloped, and apt to be large as with the partridge.

Egga Protectively Coloured, To judge from the reptiles' eggs, the first bird's eggs were probably white and many birds still lay white

down

eggs, especially those which breed in dark-holes, or which build closed democracy but living under

nests where the eggs could not be Benevolent Autocracy, and we are lecture was delivered, presided and seen from the outside. There were,

introduced the lecturer. prepared to put our

however, a good many exceptio.is. Evolution of Reptilian Egg. collar in our pocket and work a

Many birds which nested in holes Mr. Wait began by explaining lay pigmented eggs, either self- passage pronto to that spot.

So take notice from now on that that the lecture was going to be coloured or spotted, while other illustrated not by lantern slides but which lay in open nests had white this journal is the volce of the normal-minded cheerful British by actual eggs (some of them 20 eggs. Was the white egg due to citizen of whatever race who takes years old) from his collections, pro- the original habit carried the world as he finds it, minds his jections of which would be thrown without change, or did birds in

gen- own business, judges not his fellows on the screen by means of the new cral first evolve pigmented eggs too severely, sees in a difficulty only Epidioscope, an invention, but for from which a raversion to white was something to be overcome, keeps a which the lecture would not have a further modification to suit the

environments? stout heart and a stiff lip always, been possible.

In many cases it and carries on in the belief that:

Birds without exception laid eggs was hard to say whether the habit energy and honesty and some small and had carried the evolution of the of nesting in holes was

an imme measure of brains will see him original reptilian egg to a high dediate development from the rep- Most birds bullt nesta, tilian nest or whether the general some laid on the bare ground. Re- scheme of evolution in such species News in Brief.

serving his remarks about the had been (1) a nest on the ground structure of an egg and the me- with protection colouring: (2) a chanics of the process of laying to eup-nest in a tree with varying The Hong Kong Volunteer De-a later stage, the lecturer went on colours; or (3) the placing of the fence Corps will be inspected by the to explain that all birdis eggs were nest in a sheltered hole so as to gain Hong-Kong has always had its G.O.C. on Murray Parade Ground covered with a hard shell which was more protection.

The new-laid egg ups and downs; yet the uninstruct- at 6 p.m. to-morrow.

formed of phosphate of lime and was more or less transparent and phosphate or carbonate of magnesia, the meshes of the nest were so open The return of notifiable diseases colouring matter, when present, be that the egg received from above or ed will tell you that things were never so bad as they are to-day for the week-end shows three cases ing due to pigments.

below was to some extent camouflag- when a little knowledge of Our of small-pox and three cases of i Discussing the variation of out- ed by its transparency.

land History would tell him that enteric fever (one imported).

On the side texture the lecturer went on to other hand as incubation proceeded he was talking nonsense. Read

illustrate that it was soft in the the egg became a dull epaque white Eitel's History, and cheer up! Learn that on several occasions in dog on the left leg and right wrist, greasy in the Whistling Teal; glorey was no doubt, however, that many As the result of being bitten by a Cormorant (diyakawa); smooth but which was more conspicuous. There our early days it was seriously Miss Muriel McCaw, of 10, Hart in the Kingfisher; smooth but dull birds, especially those which nested debated-things were so bad whe-Avenue, Kowloon, had to go to the in

the whitevented ther or not the Colony should be Kowloon Hospital for treatment.

Drougo on the ground, laid protectively (kawuda); slightly pitted in the coloured eggs. abandoned, and then look around

Japecimen shown of a mynah's egg, "Camouflage in Nature."

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Deprecating the place he lives

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Chinese medi-

A rather clusivo, problem was

you with the seeing eye. Remem- Charged with stealing a football or of an ostrich's or peafowl's egg. most ber 1894, the Plague Year, when in-jersey from Sub-Lieut. A. C. E. The shape also varied, for example what causes had led to the evolution the deed the Colony knew the bitterness Higgins, on board-H.M.S. Herald, the specimens projected on the of all the various beautiful colours

of commercial death, shunned by Chinese youth, aged 17 years, was shipping, even the mails landed out bound over by Mr. Schofield in the shape of the Ceylon House Crow; white nor protectively coloured, and sereen showed the normal egg in those eggs which were neither "grousing" running down the spot side, the Lyeemoon. And there Central Police Court this morning. the pyriform of that of the black of what were those colours? In he happens to be making a livelihood have been slumps since then, and in in is always well to the front.

winged stilt (kalapu kloala), a his book on "Camouflage in Nature," And the nature of things always will be.

Hung Mok-keung (19), living at shape characteristic Of course the import of British 140, Des Voeux Road Central, was which laid four egga on the bare interesting chapter to the evolution of waders, Mr. W. P. Pycraft gave а mest with it all, of course, the pleasing manufactured goods is on the de-admitted to the Government Civil ground, enabling all the four eggs of colour types. insinuation that he would have done cline, but the remedy merely de- Hoapital yesterday afternoon, and to be in a small compass.

He took the sa much better somewhere else.

penda on price adjustments, and is died Afteen minutes later, as the re there was the jeg-top shape of that swallowe

Then plumage of the various species of a matter for the British Nation,sult of taking some

and king-fishers вя It is not given to all of us, even

of the pheasant tailed Jacana (Pan example and traced the gradual Government, Manufacturers, and cine.

Kukula); to many of us, to make a great Workers.

the white-beaked Moor- evolution of their colour patterns, But apart from the de-

hen with both ends of the egg sym- as illustrated, by existing species in success; but it should be granted to cline in distinctly British trade, to Jumping from an Aberdeen motor metrical; the Kingfisher with the various parts of the world.

pro-bus, on the Pokfulam Road, near roundshaped egg; the Indian Little instance in the king-fishors the an- For most of us by virtue of a modicum say that Hong-Kong is not

gressing is to, say the thing that is Hok Sze Terrace, yesterday, Chan Grebe (Diya Seruwa) with the egg cestral type appeared to be a dull- of hard work and the taking of an not, What about the building Mat (60), a carpenter, sustained in pointed at each end. intelligent advantage of the chances boom? What

about the hun-juries to his head. He

Referring to brown bird. The striped king- was re- the types of marking on the various fisher of South East Africa came of Chinese moved to the Government Civil Hoa- offering in thie Our Colony of Hong dreds of thousands Kong to make at least a decent, Colony during the last few years? mission.

who have made their homes in the pital, where he died soon after ad- eggs, Mr. Wait showed a delight very close to that ancestral colouri- ful collection of specimens on the autfon, but showed the beginninge Hiving, and carry with due, What about the Increase in the

52réen, such

as the self-coloured of acquired splendour by a blue cheerfulness as energetic and sell-European population? All these Wong Koh, master of a passenger eggs of the Pond Heron; the tinge on some of the secondary wing Other members of the be doing something. boat, reported to the Police that his stippled eggs of the Ceylan Jungle- quille. respecting citizens of the greatest people must

fawl; the freckled egg of the Indian family, step by step, showed a ten- None of us come here for our boat was proceeding in the Yaumati Empire the world has ever eeen, health, though we might come

Moor-hen; the to typhoon shelter, yesterday after variety of the Painted Snipe: the tion or to increasingly vivid struc- heavily blotched dency to intensification of pigmenta- Boon, with a Chinese pas scrawled type of the Indian Kentish tural tints due to structural changes

when the

Plover. Pasaing on to a description in the surface of the feathers, until of the relative sizes and their varia- they reached the full glory of such a a form as the Ceylon white-breasted

king-flaher-Ceylon Observer.

on

sure of ourselves, confident in the worse places. ability of our race to keep on doing;

on Of course there is the dollar, the senger good old solid silver, sonay-faced wash of

worth of silver in it. And that

+

Truls an

egg was larger when the

STRUGGLE.

Kittie Shows Pluck and Wins.

board, the steam launch, that to which it has set its hand. Hong-Kong Dollar that we used to Fai Ming, caused the boat totlons Mr. Wait showed how as

Optimism, as we ace it, is a debe so proud of! Worth now little capsize. As a result of their fall- sirable state of mind; Pessimism, a more than the mensely copper-ing into the water, the passenger mental disease. Optimism enables tinted shilling with just a penny's lost 844, and Wong $12. you, Sir, to keep on keeping on looks like going down yet more, and

Whilst walking along Stubba Pessimism lets you down, gets you the price of drinks going up! Road, yesterday, Yip Fun, (60) cm- SNAKE AND CAT IN no-where. Optimism makes you a Now there's a legitimate source of ployed as gardener at the Chinese man among men, fit to live with; And why is it falling?

pessimism if you must have one. Cemetery, Aberdeen, was knocked Because down by a bicycle ridden by an un- Pessimism only makes you a Borry there is nothing behind it. No known Chinese, who had a pillion nuisance to yourself, your poor financial backing, no government rider, both of who mran away, Yip dear wife and weana, your club credit involved.

What are we go- received concussion to the brain, and ing to do about It? While Great was taken to hospital by hie com- friends, your business associates. Britain was on the gold standard panion, another gardener.

We have indulged in the fore the answer was easy-Stabilisation.

A Chinese, recently arrived from). Brits (8. A.): An ordinary cat i going generalisation because of late! Now that Great Britain is on a we have found in Hong-Kong far would be foolishness.

*managed currency! stabilisation Singapore, who was seen lurking at had an exciting encounter with a

We shall the rear of some houses in Ko green tree snake, three foot long. ! too little of the one and far too just have to imbue our souls with Shing Street, last night, was arrest. The cat was tracking insects in much of the other, No-Intelligent patience and. Optimism; and ed by Sergeant M. Rogers. When the grass near the dwelling when ĺke was searched, a picklock, suddenly it saw the snake, which observer can deny that we are to wait and see."

was found immediately showed fight. Kittle Never forget that. any man who wrapped up in paper, day a depressed community-en-ever did anything worth doing was concealed in his shoe. On his ap- was game and rushed to the attack, tally as well as maturially. Yet an Optimist-from the late pearance before Mr. Schofield, this parrying the lunges of the snake the two need not go together, in Alexander, the Great, to the live morning, he was sentenced to twelve and striking awift blows with her

sharp claws. they were often up against it. And ple

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fact must not go together, if we Henry Ford. They had to be, for weeks' hard labour. An opening arrived, and the cat,

are to keep our position as a com- all

The Rev. Charles Budden, one bound, was on the

munity in industry, and commerce all great soldiers, callers, explosera, Vicar of St. Mildred's, Addiscombe, with her sharp, Teeth Imbedded in when world conditions begin to pick authors, politicians, preachers, poets is a qualified architect as well as the snake's flesh. The snake coil- up. When the time comes we must were born Optimists, and stayed a clergyman. He is now superined its body three times around the be prepared to let the world know just so, Optimisto was a part of tending the building of his new cat in a desperate effort to release that Hong-Kong fa still alive, still their greatness, tan flame with church, for which he designed the itself. awake to her opportunities, still on in that never died, The Vicarage.

GRAF ZEPPELIN'S FLIGHT.

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Friedichshafer, Yesterday. The Graf Zeppelin left for Per- nambuco at 12.84 4.m. on the first of a series of voyages to take place this year: Eckener is in command and is carrying nine passengers-Reuter.

Ten Years Ago,

[From the "China Mall"

March 21, 1922].

To-day's dollar is worth 2/59/16, Last night F. Yvanovitch met Onlookers wore powerless to ren- and defeated Ng Sza-kwong in the the map sa the great" distributing immortal. William was net

der any daslatance, as the cat might second round of the Billiard Cham emporium for South China, the na- a travelled man, but by A new gas mask which its in- have been injured. Fortunately, the pionship Tourney Scorce500 royal port for fifty million people, virtue of the Optimiser that lit him venter Dr. Marcille claims will cat emerged victorious, leaving, and 865 respectively. Yvanovitch'a the financial and commercial centro ho ruade his faith known in the fine afford complete -- Immunity from torn, mangled corpie as witness of biggest break being 84 and Ng Eze-

couplet that head this article. poison gas, has been submitted to her wonderful feat.

Kwong's 24. the French Arádemy of Sciences. 3

for this part of the world.