Word: waterfowls
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...Some 3,000,000 acres of waterfowl marsh are privately owned...
...Salt Water Fishing has been for big-game anglers. Packed between its covers-in addition to his memoirs and 150 pages of photographs-are: a guide for identification of 58 species of ducks and geese; a treatise on sun spots and their influence on the abundance of waterfowl; maps of the North American fly ways; statistics on the speed of birds; a chapter on U. S. duck clubs, ranging from the commercial clubs (no more private than a night club) to the exclusive groups with $10,000 membership fees...
Studio painters of waterfowl make mere decorations. Artist Scott gets in, besides the vivid and light-shot patterns, the weight and tensile trimness of the birds and the precise aerodynamics of their flight. Eventually he hopes to sober up a tendency to melodramatic color. He turns out one painting a week as a fair average, usually sells out his annual show. His mother, now Lady Kennet, an accomplished professional sculptress whose new bust of Bernard Shaw was also shown at Ackermann's, thinks her son is "preposterously prosperous...
...widely known here as an amateur collector of birds' eggs of all sorts and has one of the most complete private collections in existence of the land bird and waterfowl types...
...winter resting grounds of ducks and geese. The spring flight will be closely watched and the 1935 nesting conditions again observed. On the tabulated results of these observations the Biological Survey will make its recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and the President for next year's migratory waterfowl regulations. The first consideration will be the preservation of a safe margin of population among the ducks, I assure...