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RSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939. XX [[stamped]] JUN 26 1939 [[/stamped]]

[[image: Chilean flamingoes]]
PART OF ZOO'S NEW FLOCK - These Chilean flamingoes arrived here yesterday, part of a flock of 21 which Director William M. Mann brought back from Southern South America. They soon will be on exhibition in an outdoor pond near the bird house. - Star Staff Photo. 
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Dr. Mann's 'Chickens' Still Coming Home to Roost
Dr. William M. Mann's "chickens" are still coming home to roost. 
A flock of 21 Chilean flamingoes arrived at the Zoo this morning, along with four baby rheas (South American ostriches), a black ibis, several pampas screamers, etc.
The latest arrivals from Dr. Mann's collecting voyage to Argentina and Brazil were left in New York to be recrated before they were expressed to Washington. 
The long-legged flamingoes all survived the trip, including one that got down and was being trampled to death by his cagemates until the bos'n on the steamship Brazil rescued him and put him in the doghouse on top of the ship. 
The flamingoes proved prodigious eaters on the journey north, scooping rice, ground meat and chopped vegetable soup from the bottom of their feeding troughs with their upside-down bills. The waders, in their natural habitat, feed from the bottom of ponds, bending their necks down and shoveling toward their feet. 
The ladies of Dr. Mans's party had been worried about the baby ostriches, their special charges. The ship's crew fed them everything on the galley menu, day and night, for almost three weeks. The ostriches ate everything offered them, including at least one key ring and the setting out of a ring. 
Even an ostrich is supposed to get fed up some time. All four of these, however, lived up to their reputations for digestive powers. 
If anybody suffered, it seems to have been the crew, feeding their provisions into the maws of yearling rheas.

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[[image: Dr. Charles G. Abbott and Dr. William Mann]]
Post Staff Photo.
'Big Boss' Visits the Zoo
Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, visited the Washington Zoo yesterday for the firs time since Dr. William Mann, director, returned from the Argentine with a new shipment of birds and beasts. Dr. Abbott directs, as Dr. Mann makes movies of the new animals

^[[Post - July 7 - 39]]
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