Word: ornithologist
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...laid at the New Haven Sportsmen's show early this week with two results. First, the Cassowary that gave birth had its name changed from Charlie to Catherine; and second, its owners decided that Harlow's reputation as an ornithologist should be recognized by Yale...
...Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) inherited a tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West...
...London dinner guests, the Earl of Mansfield, reputable British ornithologist, told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...while he was poking about in the Ituri forest of the Belgian Congo, young Ornithologist James P. Chapin came upon a grinning black native proudly wearing in his headdress a brown and black feather. Dr. Chapin promptly appropriated it, for it resembled the feather of a pheasant, or peacock, and those birds, both Asiatic, had no business in Africa...
Answer to the keeper problem was a young ornithologist named Maurice Broun, who still works during the off season at "Long Trail," Vermont. He and his wife popped down to Hawk Mountain, immediately posted "No Hunting" signs all around. His deputy sheriff kept off indignant gunners, and Ornithologist Broun set about making Hawk Mountain an attractive observation point. His routine: in season, every day from 7:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. to stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that...