Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...
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...
...journey which Griscom has just completed he made to familiarize himself with the country, and its peculiarities of climate. He was accompanied by Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby, of New York, a well-known amateur ornithologist...