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...North Greenland Eskimo would undoubtedly cry "Taku!" in loud surprise were he to see a canary come falling from the sky. No less startled were New Yorkers one day last week to find lying exhausted in their streets some black & white, thick-beaked birds they had never seen before. Not since 1908 had such a bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they...
Last week Ornithologist Brand returned in triumph to his post at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, bearing the first comprehensive sound film ever made of the songs and calls of wild U. S. birds. With 90 common species thus preserved, he hopes eventually to record the song of every U. S. bird. Ambitious Albert Brand would need several lifetimes were he to pursue with his microphone the twitterings of all the birds whose skins, stuffed but unmounted, have been coming to rest in the Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter...
...Another famed private collection: that of Ornithologist John Eliot Thayer in Lancaster, Mass. Last year he presented 30,000 North American bird skins, nests & eggs to Harvard. *Also announced was a gift of 1,500 wild ducks from Lord William Percy...
Professor Huxley's special field of investigation and hobby is bird-lore. He is one of the most eminent authorities on bird-behavior, and has also made extended investigations of social life among ants...
...famed funnyman of Claremore, that not even his wife called him Will. His explanation: "I was named Willie but that's a girl's name, so I decided to use Will." Funnyman Rogers endorsed him: "He's shown more ingenuity already than any candidate I ever heard of. . . . This bird is smart. In fact he'll be plum out of place in Congress." A Dry, Representative-elect Rogers plays croquet...