$15 Million Bird Visits Boston To Bring Luck and Find Love

Colin Kerr drove his limousine to the Harvard Crimson yesterday and announced that, with the help of his $15 million Indian mynah bird, he could predict the winner of the Harvard-Dartmouth game.

Though no plans have been made for today's game, is a typical encounter with the 145-year-old Rajah, a football team first dances to a recording of the lively "Mynah Bird Hop." Then the quarterback listens to the soothing "Mynah Bird Song," after which he wills his team's victory--Rajah standing on his palm or shoulder as witness.

"Rajah will indicate to me if the team will win or if it's good-bye Charlie." Kerr said, boasting of the bird's 96 percent successful prediction record.

According to Kerr, a former tour golfer. Rajah has been his livelihood since 1956 when on a tour of New Delhi a boy gave him the bird. And since then, Kerr added. Rajah has been the source of good luck and inspiration for thousands of athletes, students, entertainers and even children in hospitals.

Kerr, who hails from Toronto, said that he grosses nearly $300,000 a year--$3,000-$5,000 per engagement--from allowing professional and college football teams, as well as student groups, access to the charmed Rajah.

Kerr's associate Fred Hill insisted that Rajah's good luck involves no form of hypnosis. "It works because the person really wants it to work." Kerr said, adding "Rajah is only a catalyst."

Rajah and his companion came to Boston to remedy problems of the bird's difficulty in having any offspring. "Rajah is a killer Mynah," said Kerr. "He simply killed all of his mates."

Bee pollen mixed with caviar has been the only aphrodisiac successful in curing Rajah's coupling problems. Kerr explained. Currently, be pollen is in high demand in Toronto, so Kerr came to Boston to fill a $100,000 order with Frederick C. Kulow '47. President of Bee Pollen from England, Ltd.

Kerr purchased Rajah's latest lady friend, Rani, who is 137 years his junior, from an elderly woman in Toronto. So far, the bee pollen seems to be working. Kerr said, adding that "The birds hang on the partition. When we take it away they make love in the air. When they fall back into their cages, they are exhausted."

Kerr added that he expected Rajah's soon to be conceived off spring to inherit its father's same charm. Hill said that since the bee pollen has been so successful, the group will visit the National Zoo in Washington. D.C. next week and offer the brown tablets to the frigid pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing