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With uncanny precision, the northern hemisphere's migratory birds fly south in the fall and north in the spring-often to targets that are continents or even oceans away. One theory holds that some birds get their traveling orders from the stars. Not quite, says Cornell Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen. The cue comes from a "biological clock" set by the birds' internal response to seasonal changes in the length of days...
...graduate study at Oxford and subsequent world travels. Tigers and elephants, which he sometimes sees on operations in Viet Nam, make Greenway think he would like to go hunting there some day "if the war ever ends." And he some times muses on the fact that his father, an ornithologist, made several field trips to Indo-China 30 years ago. "Here I am, covering the same ground he covered then...
...Lansdowne, text by John A. Livingston. 247 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $20. Paintings of birds to rank with those of Gould and Audubon distinguish this sumptuous volume devoted to Canadian birds, most of them, of course, with dual citizenship in the U.S. Lansdowne is an artist who gratifies the ornithologist with his precision and detail, and he charms the print fancier with his grace and delicacy of tone. Worth the price of 30 bushels of sunflower seeds...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. As an ornithologist studying the noble birds at Louis XIV's Court of Versailles, Author Mitford is more interested in song and plumage than ecology, but her illustrated portrait of that resplendent monarch is a tidy job of dissection...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. As an ornithologist studying the noble birds at Louis XlV's Court of Versailles, Author Mitford is more interested in song and plumage than strict biology, but her illustrated portrait of that resplendent monarch is a tidy job of dissection...