A Rare Bird.- | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 21.

A Rare Bird.—

On May 14 the Mongolia landed at San Francisco as part of its cargo a rare specimen of the cassowary, a bird found in the East Indies. “The strange creature is smaller and stouter than the ostrich, and has a sort of helmet of horny substance which consists of plates overlapping each other. A group of long, sharp spines on each wing are used as weapons of defense.”