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11I1I»——•*View(By C. C. J.)This matter of whether the Phil ly-loo bird is exUnet, )passe, or prevalent, seems to be quite a mooter] question, in .many circles,si nee it was broached in a recent epistle in these columns a few days ago. Says Leo Lloyd, gonial lefter-flipper of Uncle Sain-a “put-anri-take” organization In Corona: “Von’re .all wrong when you say that the philly-Ioo bifd i« extinct. Your correspondent' -was right when he .stated that tbfe bird with one short leg reversed its way around the mountain and toppled into the “precipice below to meet ‘her’ death. But this fellow didn’t finish his story. 1*11 toll you the rest. The body of the poor little hen lay for days under the warm sunlight. An unlaidegg wn/j thus hatched. It ..was adouble-header and’two little philly-Ioo chickens were born. They continued to propagate the race and there are philly-loo birds still in existence. I thought 1 heard one calling to its mate the other night, but maybe I vas mistaken.Roseoe Jphnson: ‘Tve been,nil over Kansas and never saw* a phUIy-loo bird in $nY lif|6. -We used to haye a lot of shyte-pokes ZJ back there/ but I never heard^of T“ any of the?m singing/' John Hen-, ry: “When I was superintendent of a water company down in the imperial Valley a few ye%rs back, fre used to have trouble with the phiily-loo, hirds boring into vthesides of the dikes and letting the water out of our canals. 1 solved the problem by buying several good flsh-hounds to hunt these birds and they soon disappeared.”THE BIRD EDITOR BEGAN TO GET CURIOUS AND HE MADE FURTHER INQUIRIES; nmEfsiihetee-SUITS:Joe Smith, cigar merchant: “Sure. I've seen phi By-loo birder .1 used to handle considerable quantities of dynamite, before I got into the cigar business arid these birds were very fond of it. We used fo have to put the boxes of dynamite up out of their reach. Funny thing about these birds. They can’t fly, but they can outrun a full grown jack rabbit.•/•*Aown“Yes.Mayor Colbern has his ideas about the phJJly-Joos. sir.” he stated yesterday, “They still have them up in the mountains of Montana, only we called them ‘side-winders/ The story of one of their legs being shorter than the other is true. I have chased them around the hills on my cow-pony many times. They are ■ some relation to the road-runner of the desert and can easily outrun a good cow-horpe.”George Liebig, ' consta b I e *: •‘When I first came to Corona, we used to see lots of these philly-loo birds in th# hills south of town. They were a different .brand though than the ones we had back in Kansas. All I ever saw out here had bright red top-nots/‘WE MUST HAVE STARTED SOMETHING WITH THIS PHILLY-LOO STUFF. FROM KVKHY ANGLE THE “NATURE-FAKERS” ARE RUSH--I-NG - i-N TO HP frHNTV*-—III don’t believe T ever ran across a philly-ioo bird,” says \V\ F. Eldridge, prominent rancher near Corona, “but I’ve got a monkey-faced owl out on myplace that is the king of ail birds. He forages at.night and brings in his prey. Even the bones and leathers of pheasants are found scattered about theplace he calls his home. Weoften see a lot of strange birdsout on the place, but I don’t recall any of your philly-loo birds/'Tom Hanmer, rancher: “I heafthe phillyHoo birds singing, along the Santa Ana river bottom every year during the month of August, but never yet have I been able to see one of them. J. B. Coplen: “We had lots of philly-loo birds back in Arizona in the mining camps in the early day.*; Some of the boys used to train 'em to help prospect. They were great borers and many a good strike can be traced directly to their activi-Oka,-„-K.V.A''y/ -• * . • p «*•ivWtilo1Ablt; iWhen -T was -— — rj i w t be f o re the rev pi \\ t i cm S.t a r.t-ed,” said Ralph Stanfield, the druggist,'I“I:PYad(T scv(‘vat inquir-i«*s about the bird life there, and was told that the phiUv-loo birdswere, so plentiful that the natives were up in arms about them. One native told me that the philly-loo birds were great singers* and especially dpwn at Maztalan. they would gather in great flocks on the beach where there was plenty of sand, and whistle their shrill songs all night long. We used to call ’em sand-pipers over at Hemet, but 1 guess they were really philly-loo birds. *Fred Schaal: 'Tve heard of ’em yes.” George Clay tor: “I’ve got my doubts about ’em. I thinksomebody has been at ringin’ the bird editor.” Dick Yoris: “We ftsed to have a lot of ’em around La Sierra Heights. There’s one hill out there where you can still see a path worn dear around it where the philly-loo birds used to exercise every night. I’ve never seen them, but I have often heard them sing.9 iThat ought to prove beyond tttty—reason—of—doubt-t-hut—phi]ly-loo.bjtd is stil 1 An existenceand if the above testimony is notlotconvincing we ve got a lot more fellows who will gladly 1 ell whatthey know about this specimen of wild and wilder life.Mir nirii/rnn trcEVERY BIRD LOVER HAS ?A DIFFERENT IDEA ABOUT THESE BIRDS ANJD THEIR HABITS.t1CL.Bob Loman of the Sturiebakqr garage says that back in Missouri where he came from they manufactured thousands of corn cob pipes and have specially trained philly-loo birds for reaming out the holes in the corncobs. “The fellow who said that the philly-loo birds were fond, of doughnut holes must have been right, because they, can beat any woodpecker 1 (jver saw when it comesto drilling a hole in wood.”i(cJ
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Corona Daily Independent
Corona, California, US
Fri, Apr 05, 1929
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