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...wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who had never seen more than four eagles together, went skeptically down from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group, Ornithologist Gross said: "The loud screams and powerful wing beats of these giant birds were an experience never to be forgotten...
...Manhattan, a woodcock flew into a skyscraper's electric sign and fell outside an office window of the National Association of Audubon Societies...
Month ago Reginald I. ("Rex") Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) signed a contract with Connecticut in which that State agreed to build within two years a museum to house his collection of North American bird drawings-a collection which some experts rate as the best since John James Audubon (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932).* By last week almost all of "Rex" Brasher's 874 original pictures, valued by him at $500,000, had been moved to the State Capitol vaults at Hartford...
More accurate than Audubon, who was inclined to exaggerate and dramatize his birds, "Rex" Brasher has spent most of his 65 years tramping across fields, swamps, beaches, spying on birds and recording their habits in soft, warm colors that suggest Japanese prints. Son of amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher who gave his name to the Brasher Warbler, he got his art training in Tiffany & Co.'s engraving department and from a Portland, Me. photo-engraver. For stay-at-home ornithologists and bird lovers he has made 100 twelve-volume sets of reproductions, each colored by hand. These sets sell...
...Jean Jacques Fougere Audubon (1785-1851) was born of a seafaring father and a Creole mother in Santo Domingo. Anglicizing his name to John James he went to the U. S. in 1803, launched a series of unsuccessful business enterprises of which one landed him in jail for debt. A hunter and fisherman, he managed to make a living by selling portraits, did not think of publishing his bird pictures until he" was 35. Birds of America, his most famed set of plates, were engraved in London, began appearing in 1827, now fetch $10,000 for a complete...