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...different species of birds in Guatemala caused Ludlow Griscom, a Research Curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to make during the past summer a special trip to Central America, from which he has just returned. Although, because of its peculiar variation in fauna, the country has been combed by ornithologists, Griscom was able to secure some very rare specimens...
...stretching from Johannesburg east to Portuguese East Africa. The building of roads in British territory since the Boer War has made hunting from the back seat of an automobile too easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president of England's Society for Preserving the Fauna of the Empire set aside territories where hunters may not shoot. Belgium's largest reservation is Albert Park in the Congo, established through efforts of the late Carl Akeley...
...spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted's animals might be spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched out in fur instead of feathers. Investigation proved this to be the work of a copycat, however, not a real migration of fabulous fauna. One Louis Mortison, reporter for the Waterbury Republican, apparently thought he could obtain for Waterbury the same sort of publicity that Stone's stories had brought Winsted. He named the hero of all his stories Lester Green. His stories have received fair but not great circulation, some of them...
...Salt, Brass, Bread). She has one son of her own, Frank (two daughters have died), but in the summer the Norrises' 200-acre ranch at Saratoga, Calif, houses a cheerful bedlam of children?wards, cousins, children from miles around needful of home life and a good time. Among other fauna at the Norris ranch are children of Poet Columnist William Rose Benet whose first wife was Mrs. Norris's sister, the late Teresa Frances Thompson...
...least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will be promoted. Unfortunately his wife and the Spaniard, who proves to be innocent, fall in love and arrange...