NZP Receives Japanese Chickens
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PrintShigenobu Shima, representing Japanese Ambassador Sadao Igushi, presented the Secretary of Defense with a male and female Japanese onagadori, a long-tailed chicken. The chickens were named Martha and George by Defense Secretary Wilson because they arrived on Washington's Birthday.
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
February 24, 1955