Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no sentiment in a bird's sex life. Most people think the male struts and flaunts his plumage to take the female's fancy. What he is really attempting is intimidation. So reported Cornell University's Ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen to some 400 colleagues gathered in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History last week for the golden jubilee meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...
...ardent amateur ornithologist, Stevens sat in the library of his Highland Park (Chicago suburb) home, within reach a volume of an encyclopedia open to an article on birds. Taking a revolver in hand he fired a trial shot into the fireplace, then put a bullet through his head. Insurance to be paid on his life was estimated at $300,000. His brother and his father, 79, were to go on trial with him, but the father last week lay ill unto death with apoplexy and his life insurance of $72,000 was in danger of lapsing unless premiums were paid...
Last week Ornithologist Brand returned in triumph to his post at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, bearing the first comprehensive sound film ever made of the songs and calls of wild U. S. birds. With 90 common species thus preserved, he hopes eventually to record the song of every U. S. bird. Ambitious Albert Brand would need several lifetimes were he to pursue with his microphone the twitterings of all the birds whose skins, stuffed but unmounted, have been coming to rest in the Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter...
...Another famed private collection: that of Ornithologist John Eliot Thayer in Lancaster, Mass. Last year he presented 30,000 North American bird skins, nests & eggs to Harvard. *Also announced was a gift of 1,500 wild ducks from Lord William Percy...
...amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher (for whom the Brasher warbler was named), Rex early heard his father's criticisms of the famed Audubon bird plates which often carry naturalism, composition and color beyond the point of probability. In 1879, aged 10, Rex Brasher decided to paint all the birds in North America himself. After his father died, he learned taxidermy, went to St. Francis College (Brooklyn) and at 15 to work in the engraving department of Tiffany & Co. No longer prosperous was his family, whose founder, according to the family legend, had come to Manhattan in 1621 as the wealthy...