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...question: "Is it oriole, redbird or bluebird, or some strange, un-Auduboned new bird?" S. Clay Williams favors an NRA of neutral color with no spectacular plumage. That makes him a considerable asset to the New Deal. For when the shooting begins over the form of NRA's renewal, a neutral bird will be the poorest target...
Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History received its first news from the expedition which rich, eccentric Templeton Crocker of San Francisco is conducting in the South Sea islands aboard his big yacht Zaca. The news: Gygis alba, a white, gull-like bird, builds no nest for her solitary, mottled egg but plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering...
...victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit of today's hard-boiled pacts...
...idea of teaching the cheetah to retrieve. After two days the cheetah fetched dead or wounded ducks on land or in the water, delivered them instead of eating them. When hunting pheasant, the cheetah is less useful than a pointer. Instead of standing still, it runs after every bird, frequently catches one after it has flown by jumping in the air and knocking it down with...
...whole of humanity has had a wrong conception of the bird of prey. Now take Shakespeare. He used the owl to create tragedy and gloom. That sort of thing made the public associate the owl with a graveyard, but I'm wiping all that out. I am sort of the Walt Whitman of Canada, although not so risque, as I deal with birds...