'A humming bird with a beautiful red throat—which incidentally feeds on malted milk mixed with various things—was shown as an! example of a type, which at one time was badly persecuted for its plumage.
Another curious bird, which makes a noise "like a mixture of a cock crowing and a witch laughing," spent all- day-at sea, bur lived in rabbit burrows at night.
Fascinating films of British bird life on Farne Islands and Grasholm Island were shown. Cries of the wild birds came realistically through the sound apparatus, and the kittiwake—so called because it seems to sing that word shrilly—was -the favourite with the children.
Learning to fly was a remarkable picture, the young kittiwake getting up steam with its wings in much the same way as an aeroplane on the ground does some preliminary propeller-whirring. ihe. Kruger. National Afric: filmed eating, apparently, beetles, bees' nests, scorpions, and centipedes, Lions are seemingly quite uninterested in motor-cars, as they realise they are no good to eat, and photographers in cars went among the lions quite unafraid.
Lion cubs—which are mot self-supporting for a year—are taught by their mother and her mate io kill their prey in the highly scientific manner for which the lion is reowned.
Pigmies were shown, and Dr. Huxley emphasized that they, too, must be strictly protected and not per-secured by traders, missionaries, administrators, or anyone else! We must save what is worth Saving in the culture of primitive types, and "we must avoid ruining them in the process of civilizing them."
Dr. Huxley mentioned a legend of some animals with such a horror of old age that they dash themselves to death when it approaches.
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