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Eighteen months later, Chambers (then a senior editor of TIME) told HUAC that Hiss was a Communist. Not so, said Hiss, who also insisted that he had never known Chambers. But Chambers knew so many details about Hiss's life?including the fact that Hiss, an amateur ornithologist, had once spotted a rare prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac?that his adversary was finally forced to reverse himself. Then Chambers made a more serious accusation: that Hiss had passed State Department secrets to him in the late 1930s...
Roger Tory Peterson, L.H.D., ornithologist...
...amateur ornithologist, this is the "barred owl (strix varia), because it is barred across the stomach," Richard Webster '77 said yesterday...
Native-born peregrine falcons-not plentiful even when they were thriving -had not been seen in the skies over the Eastern U.S. for some 20 years. But now this fierce, graceful bird of prey, driven to the brink of extinction by DDT,* appears to be making a comeback. Ornithologist Tom Cade and his colleagues at Cornell University have succeeded in breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them in the wild, where they can once again be seen soaring to great heights before diving on their prey at speeds of up to 200 m.p.h...
...bird get so far south? Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson speculates that it migrated across the top of Alaska to the mouth of the Mackenzie River in Canada, became separated from its own kind and took up with a colony of Bonaparte's gulls in their summer breeding ground, then flew south with them last fall. Or perhaps it is the victim of a gull's version of an identity crisis. Says American Birds Editor Robert S. Arbib Jr. dryly: "He thinks he's a Bonaparte...