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Last week Secretary Wallace took another step toward duck conservation when he indicated that he would approve the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board's recommendations for this year's hunting season. Most important duck-saving clauses: 1) Prohibition of baiting of ducks in the vicinity of shooting stands. 2) A 30-day shooting season (half that of last year) for each state, to fall between...
...Hawk. On the grounds of an insane asylum at Ransom. Pa. the head farmer noticed his chickens scurry suddenly for cover. A hen hawk, he thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society...
...According to press reports, Hibbing's congressman declared that President Roosevelt is a goofus bird that does not care in which direction it flies so long as it keeps on flying. Hibbing's congressman is a buzzard that flies about looking for carrion...
...Italian motif dominates the 22 buildings of Indiana limestone and white-washed brick. In the blue of a long pond glitter the glass & aluminum of two bird houses and a reptile house. A bug house, first in the U. S., is half completed. It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates...
...lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. southwest of Chicago...