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...watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROGER TORY PETERSON: 1908-1996: THE BIRDMAN OF AMERICA | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

Three other Graduate School students won Honorable Mention. Jess B. Bessinger 4G for "Robin Hood in the Forest of Philology: The Ballads After Ritson"; Geoffrey B. Riddehough 1G for "Trogon Isolation in Greek Drama"; and Edward E. Hunt, Jr. 4G for "The Biological Study of Human Evolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six in College, GSAS Get Bowdoin Prizes for Outstanding Dissertations | 5/25/1950 | See Source »

...garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Steel | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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