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tt] “I have read with much interest the authorities which you quote on the philly-loo, and especially regarding the extinction of the boid, and if I hasten to point out several glaring inaccuracies, please believe that it is not done in anger, nor even in sorrow—I like to do it. The bird in question is not a philly-loo bird at all; its habitat is not in M011-j tana nor the Dakotas, and it is I “ not extinct. Otherwise the arti-! cles show admirable truth to nature and fidelity to fact. The birds correct name is gilly-loo, derived .from its plaintive cry which :niay 'be heard just at sunset on any summer evening in the lake country of northern Wisconsin. And if the bird himself doesn’t know what his own name is, \yhat prairie editor shall undertake to tell him? Fondness of the gilly-doo for doughnut holes is nature's (provision for maintain-{.ing inflation of a sort of pneu-| matic inner tube that aids the! ’bird in swimming, continues the school man. I can vouch for this (peculiarity because I know that, if our cook threw out any dough-) nuts with holes, the gilly-loojwould descend in flocks and de-#| vour the whole. The gilly-loo ■birds are related to the wold cold-{shuts and fuzzy billed sidewinders. The last named is larger lhan the gilly-loo and when emboldened by numbers and drivenby hunger has been known to at-itack an unarmed swamper. This is so well understood by the old hands that newcomers in camp are always warned.
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, May 03, 1929
Page 8
Full Page
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Kevin S.
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