Word: ornithologist
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...motorcycle policeman of Westchester County, N. Y. was surprised last week to behold an elderly gentleman kneeling in a path through some woods near Scarsdale peering skywards through binoculars. The gentleman explained that he was P. L. Hudson of Brooklyn, ornithologist; that that bird up yonder was an arctic owl in full winter plumage; that winter would come soon...
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Liberal, ornithologist, dry fly fisherman: "The Government must not be led to suppose that because the Liberals support its foreign policy, therefore they can rely on the Liberals in the last resort to keep it in office at all costs. . . . The danger of the financial position of the country is so real and great that the Liberal party should oppose increases in public expenditure and vote for a policy of economy even if this involves defeat of the Government...
...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...