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...tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
...Shoemaker says: "By raising the bird and dropping it suddenly it Avas made to flutter as it was going down; and the flying birds, seeing it, would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net would be sprung. At once there would be a mass of fluttering, struggling pigeons, with heads protruding through the meshes. The fowler and his assistants would rush to the massacre, which was the crushing of the head of each individual bird between the thumb and forefinger...
...time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow king snake five feet long...
...loading. Gun manufacturers are willing to cooperate. Among famed conservationists at the game conference were Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Resources; Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, president of National Association of Audubon Societies; Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, Senate Commission on Migratory Bird Conservation; Col. Arthur Foran, comptroller of the Port of New York, vice president of More Game Birds in America...
Earl Sande, premier U. S. jockey, made his debut as a professional tenor at the Kiwanis Club of Alexandria, Va., sang "Mother Machree" and "Bird Songs at Eventide." Asked after the performance how he had felt, said he: "Well, I was kinda nervous...