Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there shall be no open season at all this year for duck-hunters. Duck-hungry gunners, their season already shortened, their bag already restricted (TIME, July 13) glowered in Dr. Pearson's direction, yet stroked their chins when they thought of a world shot completely out of wild fowl...
Sirs: In reference to your "Queer Drugs" on p. 24 of July 6 issue in regard to a Japanese Silky fowl. This bird has a normal tail, and is not to be confused with the Yokohama or Phoenix chicken of which there is a specimen in the Tokyo museum with a tail covert length...
Also the Silky fowl is not particularly rare in this country. Prize-winning specimens of the very best blood seldom run over...
HENRY SILVERTHORNE Riverside, Ill. P.S. Another very curious quality of this bird is its feathers which are webless and resemble the down on a baby chick-thus Silky Fowl...
Last week, according to dispatches, a "widely known ornithologist who desires to remain anonymous" apparently distrusted the word of Marquess & Earl. He bought St. Kilda to insure its remaining a sanctuary for sea fowl...