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...ivory-billed woodpecker, rarest of U. S. birds, was considered extinct about 1926. But in the latest issue of Audubon Magazine Ornithologist James Taylor Tanner of Cornell estimated that some four & twenty of these birds still live in the loneliest swamps of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. Biggest U. S. woodpecker, the ivory-bill once ranged the southern primeval forest, eating larvae from recently dead trees. As the forest dwindled, so did the ivorybill, and Tanner gives it only a slim chance of surviving...
Last week birds all over the world had reason to be glad that Mrs. Richard Hooper Pough came home one day in 1939 with a new hat. The hat sported an eagle feather. Husband Pough was mightily vexed. A worker for the Audubon Society, he had hoped that hard-won U. S. laws of 1900, 1918, 1930 would protect eagles and other wild birds from milliners. He soon found that when Paris couturiers feathered ladies' hats, traffic in plumage flourished again as it had 30 or 40 years...
Geography usually means a big bookful of maps and statistics behind which crafty schoolboys munch apples. But last week Ohio State University's Geographer Roderick Peattie, elder brother of rhapsodic Botanist Donald Culross Peattie (A Prairie Grove, Audubon's America, etc.), explained geography to grownups. Geography in Human Destiny presents geography as the study of fact-relationships, not of facts. Says Author Peattie: "What it is, is a correlation between sciences. ... If one must classify it, call it a philosophy." Geography, Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems...
...AUDUBON'S AMERICA-Edited by Donald Culross Peattie-Houghton MifFlin...
...Audubon writings include sporadic journals, letters, accounts of his meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes...