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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1935.

OLDEST EGG IN THE WORLD

LAID BY REPTILE IN DAYS OF ANTIQUITY

( BY E. G. BOULENGER.)

Interest has been aroused by the lays its own eggs side by side with recent discovery of what in pro- the birds, and the heat, so care- inbly the oldest fosall egg known fully attended to and regulated by bo date. The specimen in ques- the parent bird, hatches out the tion has been unearthed in Central, deadliest enemies of its own off- Texas, and is believed to have spring. The lizard's eggs hatch- emanated from an extinct reptile ing first, there issues forth, not a -the Ophfacadon, whose romaina covey of chicks, but a swarm of were found nearby.

reptiles that make their first moal

a - remarkabla

The egg, which is now under- of infant brush turkeys. The going examination by experts, Is brush turkey is of biological in- since its Incubatory fissumed to be over 100,000,000 torent, years old, and therefore of even methods exhibit

certain greater antiquity than the dino parallel to those of saurs emanated from eggs or ware reptiles from which the feathered born alive. The latter assumptión race is believed to have evolved. was not ungrounded, since the

giraffe-necked sen lizards known

as Plesiosaurs have long been extablished-as-viviparous, com- plete skeletons having been found with foetal skeletons in situ.

onc WAR

That the Gobi Desert eggs, which in size and shape resemble large potatoes, were actually those of the dinosaur was proved con- clusively when the outer crust of accidentally chipped away, revealing the curled-up form of an embryo dinosaur with- in. This immediately justified the assumption that the eggs were laid by the reptiles, whose re- maids abounded in the vicinity. THE DINOSAUR

Dinosaura, like the parent of the lately, discovered egg from Texas, were shortlived, large- headed creatures some six feet in length and mero miniatures when compared with some of the rep- illes which later dominated earth and water.

Despite this discovery in the Gobi Desert, it would perhaps be rash to assume that ali dinosaurs were similarly produced. A con- siderable number of living rep tiles still remain unknown in the egg state, and of the many forms with which we are familiar there, is much divergence of behaviour, many loying eggs, a few hatching from ova within the body, whilst others bring forth their young alive,

Ao regarda living reptiles, ull turtles, tortoises, and crocodiles, so far sa is at present known, pro- duce their young from ogga, which are either laid in sand and hatched by the hont of the sun, er de posited in rotting vegetation and incubated partly by the sun's rays and partly by fermentation. Al- though since the introduction of the sunray lamp an increasing number of different reptiles can now bo kapt for long periods in captivity, few make good parents in confluement, hence the many gaps in our knowledge of their embryology.

PYTHON'S MOTHER LOVE

It has been ascertained at the Zoo, however, that the python largest of the world's snakes, displays a very real anxiety for its eggs. In this giant reptile. the eggs, up to 100 in number, are protected by the mother, who calls harself round them and subjects! the ova to a form of incubation.

this nursing period, which mes extends to over four menius. the temperature of the fernale rises several degrees above the normal, an increase of heat which is of the samo nature as that of an incubating bird.

This big tri-motor plans, is one of those used by German sportsmen to reach the winter sports grounde in the Bavarian Alps.

There little Chinese ladies are prepared for a ceremonial

occasion.

And belaw, Admiral Takahashi, new Commander-in Chief of the Japanese Navy comes aboard his flagship.

"A GREAT NEW POET"

It is impossible to say whether the majority of sunkes lay eggs or produce their young alive, for occasionally both methods of re- production are to be observed in the same species. As an example, one may quote the case of sea scr- pents, highly poisonous snakes which abound in most tropic! waters. This group of reptiles, which includes some fifty species, has until quite recently been pro- MR. claimed as universally viviparous, Captive specimens in the Zoo Aquarium, however, discounten- anced authority by insisting upon leylag egge, and although the ova did not actually hates, their mere appearance was a sufficient waru- ing as to the wisdom of the old proverb festina lente.

ALFRED NOYES PROPHECY

publishers, he continued, to impose nonsense on the public, and the publie were "fed up" with it. The only chance for young mun how was the crude one of self-advertise- į ment, and the men with the older reputations were protesting that the junk must be cleared out to let the young men expresaTMthemselves in their own way. What were you to do with a situation in which people with degenerate heads came to him and showed him stuff they; Members of the Poetry Society called poetry, of which he could listened recently to Mr. Alfred not understand three consecutive To the writer's knowledge, none. of the many lizards which lay Noyes reading two poema by an words. eggs appear to have any anxiety unknown young man who, he pro-

"NO ANXIETY

YOUNG MAN AS YET UNKNOWN

for their welfare once they are phesied, will in twenty years from

TO WAIT 20 YEARS

:

"They tell me," said Mr. Noyes,

laid, though in some cases there, now be recognised as one of the "at we are not interested in the

is a certain amount of cunning great poets of the English tongue." exhibited as to the choice of a nest

now poetry. I know one new poet

The occasion was the Society's and I tell you I am quite certain

Snow in Venice. Oh, to be a Gondoller!

England bas gone "streamline" conscious, in big way Not content with modernising. trolley cars (Top) they have also gone in for stormproof, stream-lined perambulators of the type shows

below.

in preference to a mere dumping ground. It la, for example, Silver Jubileo dinner held at the he is a great new poet. He uses possible that Whipanado Park's Connaught Rooms, at which Mr. nietres that have never been used. phenomenal success in rearing Noyes presided. In his speech pro- before; ho follows the great tradi brush turkeys is largely due to the birds being spared the attentions posing the toast of "Poetry and the tion in that he develops it in a of a lizard which, in, the wild, Poetry Society," Mr. Noyes said: significant way: he doesn't write frequently invades the bird's home "At the present moment the bad grammar and try to make out for its own nesting purposes.

chances of an absolutely new poet that he does it on purpose. In The cock brush turkoy raises n mound of debris some forty-eight being appreciated are very small. twenty years from now he will be foot round by six feet high, with For this there are definite reasons, recognised as one of the great poets ==

of the English tongue." an average weight of fivo tona. Twenty-five years ago there was a

The Spanish Ambassador, Senor Deep within this structure the very great opportunity given · to Mr. Noyes then read two poems to be a f

Don. Raymon de Ayala, read a poem hea bird places the eggs, which poets, which was seized by a num- from a volume of poetry called

in Spanish of his own composing, are hatched by formentation. In ber of writers. They brought "The Black Panther," by John. Hall Jo and due to a

♪ meuba o ap and the Peralen Minister rend tho, Australian bush, however, the

several poems of his own country. labour of the parent bird is fre- Poetry into favour with a large Wheelock. The first stanza of one

sadas por po po Among others who spoke were the quently frustrated by a large part of the reading public. Since of them, The Fish Howk," was as-Hastag di jo prize of

follows:

Japanese - by her mismoor out

Ambassador, MET. monitor lizard, which annexes the then many things have happened."

and Lord; Justice- warudalm, mound for its own

"On the large highway of the poutsaios gyozott ópya us

Slesser.. awful dir that flows

-diff Puv vse tasoijaq papusinqua

purposes.

This manoeuvre apolis dianator to the turkey's brood. for the reptile

There was an attempt by some!

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