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the abbeville press and banner (abbeville, s.c.) 1869-1924 — giant bird

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1893-12-20
Location: abbeville, south carolina, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the abbeville press and banner (abbeville, s.c.) 1869-1924 · 1893-12-20 · page 09
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1893-12-20 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “giant bird”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... -K a fabulous creature. This giant bird, W now extinct, is called by the geologists Epvornis. So far as we know, there areouly three eggs of this bird in existence, one belonging to the Longlsland Historical Society, one at the Musum of Natural Hisiory in this city, and one in London, recently brought there from Madagascar. This last is whity brown in color, 33} inches by 28 inches. An ostrich egg is about 17 inches by 15 inches, and it would take six ostrich eggs to equal in bulk one of inu Jiipyuriiis. it wuuiu iunt? uue hundred and forty-eight eggs of the common barnyard fowl to equal one of ihe Kpyornis. The friend who ...

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