Word: ornithologists
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...until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss...
...Pamirs, they found the Ovis poli looking rather seedy, his winter coat not yet grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...
...Roosevelt, entered the ancient city of Kashgar (eastern Turkestan) last week. "Fine success," cable those sons of a great hunter, Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt. They had come back to their base from the rugged Tian Shan mountains after losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went. They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they...
...Were an ornithologist suddenly to stumble upon a real live dodo, his pleasure, but not his surprise, might be greater than that of a music-lover of 1913 on finding himself confronted with Mr. Goepp's "Is Wagner a Master?" Mr. Goepp supports his negative answer with all the impressiveness and argumentive force which the printing of the word "no" in italics can confer. However, the right to his own opinion is one far from the present reviewer be the attempt to dissuade Mr. Goepp from his honest conviction that Wagner was "destructive of melody," that his career was "decadent...
...meet this need, a class for leaders is being organized to meet weekly on Wednesdays from 7.30 to 9.30 P. M. from January 11 to April 5, at the Boston Y. M. C. A., 10 Ashburton place, for instruction by various experts, such as the state Forester the state Ornithologist, etc. The class is open to the first 25 men who apply, and it is desirable that some Harvard men be among the number. Applications should be made to D. S. Gates. Secretary, Boston Y. M. C. A., and further information may be obtained at Brooks House. A. BRINK...