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...American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. . . . The American squirrel ... is a large grey...
...Last February Governor Roosevelt under similar procedure removed Sheriff Tom Farley of New York County. Thirty-two years ago another Governor Roosevelt-Republican Theodoreremoved Asa Bird Gardinez as the District Attorney of New York
...Holland of Field & Stream argued that if a duck cannot find food in one place it will go somewhere else. To raise money for conservation the American Game Association introduced a bill in Congress providing for a $1 Federal hunting license, met a counter proposal from the More Game Birds in America Foundation for a 1¢ shell tax (TIME, March 28). Before the groups could agree on any measure Congress had adjourned. Meanwhile the American Game Association had sent observers to the breeding grounds, had received reports that conditions were good for a large flight this year. The Migratory Bird...
...says he is 55, looks about ten years older, is small, wiry, baldish. Contrary to strangely persistent legends (besides one that he is a woman) he is neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice (et al.) Martin...
...life, an urge that kept pushing me on. It was a great love of children, a desire to give them something of the joy and understanding my mother had given me. . . . I began to write verses for children. . . . I signed these verses 'John Martin' because of the bird friends of my boyhood...