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the Roeky Mountain belt to volunteer some information regard-* M * , 4 »ing the philly-loo bird. We will try to tell what little we know of the fauna of this featheredveirtebrate. . It (inhabits tthe .Little Belt mountains •'west -of HarloW-toWrf, Mont., and subsists principally iupon grizzly bear and mountain lions. It is claimed that its ■method of corralling its prey is very simple. It sprinkles a few drops of near beer, for which it ' makes a special flight to Salt •Lake City, Montana being a pro* hibition state, upon the tail of the bear and of the lion. Both of these animals have an innate fondness for near beer, and after being sprinkled they smell eachother a long way off. Each at-%tacks the other in the rear and begins to swallow his adversary’s -tail. This process is 'kept up until practically the whole body of .the tlion is inside the bear that, of the bear inside the lion. At fhis moment , the philly-loo bird, which has been rubbering ’from a nearby peak, comes along, seises the void, takes it (back .to his aerie, cuts .it up into vacuums which .he consumes at his leisure. There are many other interesting points about the philly-loo bird, :for instance it generally flies upside down which enables it to absorb more violet rays from the blue sky, and thereby stave off rheumatism. This method of flying also contributes to the scarcity of ornithological knowledge among hunters as to its habits, and renders it almost impossible to get hold of a specimen, for when one is# winged or otherwise injured in the air, it falls up.f
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, May 03, 1929
Page 8
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