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...bird with a red beak and black feathers under its wings was placed last week in. a glass case in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History...
...great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east...
...lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March 5, she must defend her title in the National Championship Bird Dog Trials, against the pick of the best bird dogs in the U. S. The trials to be run at Grand Junction would take up three days at least; the pairing of the dogs, determined by lot, would be read and posted the night before they opened. The dogs would then...
...down together, the braces of the National or any other bird dog trials usually race together across open country, heading into the wind toward a likely clump of bushes. At the first scent of game, one or the other of the pair makes his point and if birds are flushed, the judges score a point for him. The dog's opponent comes to an "honor point" and the competition goes on, both dogs striving for the whiff of quail, until the judges are satisfied which of the two is the better worker...
...National Championship Bird Dog Trials, run at Grand Junction every year, are the most important in the U. S.; next come the Free-for-All, won a month ago by Mary Blue at Union Springs, Ala. Correspondingly important are two western trials, the Manitoba and the All-America, run in Saskatchewan every September, in which prairie chicken instead of quail is the game. Elsewhere in the U. S., approximately 160 minor field trials, including derby championships, were held last year...