MRS. POLLARD JEFFRIES, A VISITOR FROM GRAND 
RAPIDS, MICH., FOCUSES ON A “HINGED” TORTOISE 
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The African newcomers included 25 box tortoises 
whose upper shell has a queer “hinge” that produces 
a rudder-like effect; a falcon,that is so new in these 
parts Walker and his aids don’t know what to call it; 
20 deadly cobras, vipers and pythons, and several 
miscellaneous creatures of lesser distinctions. 
“Falconry enthusiasts will be wanting to borrow 
the new falcons, see if they don’t/’ said Walker. “The 
one that’s so strange to us may possibly be a newly 
discovered species. The other two resemble the 
goshawk of North America but are smaller/’ 
Among the reptiles introduced to their new homes 
yesterday were eight rhinoceros vipers, so called be- 
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black cobras which blow their venom into the vie* 
tim’s eyes, three dangerous gaboon vipers, two young 
pythons; a broad-nosed crocodile, the 25 tortoises 
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and several palm vipers and lizards. 
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