Word: ornithologist
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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...
...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...
...talked with Ornithologist A. H. Chisholm who told him about the Bower Bird, the bird which paints the inside of its nest. He was delighted with a luncheon which I hurriedly arranged, where he met Ministers of the State-men who were former speakers in the State House Assembly and the Federal Senate...
Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...
...ornithologist has discerned 15 species, among which are: two varieties of chickadee, a ruby-crowned kinglet, a black and white junco, a nuthatch, a downy woodpecker and forlorn cedar waxwing...