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Everyone knows that the eagle is the "U. S. National Bird" because he appears upon certain coins, flagpoles and in the worst Fourth of July orations. There is, however, no Federal statute making it illegal or traitorous to kill the national bird. The eagle is specifically named for protection in state game laws in Maine, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kansas and Nevada, indirectly in 38 other states. In West Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia there is no closed season on eagles...
...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...
Useless to try to catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. But millions of Indians believe that the way to pacify a mad elephant is to have a camel bite...
...Austin Jr. caught a common tern in Northern Labrador, put an aluminum band around its leg. In September 1929, the same tern, still banded, was seen and examined off the southern tip of Africa, in the Indian Ocean, 9,000 mi. from Labrador. This was accepted by the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association meeting in Boston fortnight ago, as the longest migration ever proved to have been made by a bird. The previous record was held by an arctic tern which had flown from Turneuik Bay in southern Labrador to Margate, Natal, South Africa, some 8,000 miles...
...cases of psittacosis were reported, eight psittacosis deaths. In Washington, Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming ordered a nation-wide investigation of psittacosis, to be headed by Dr. Charles Armstrong. In Los Angeles, all pet stores and recently purchased birds were quarantined. In Chicago, one Ben Plonski tried to get rid of an annoying parrot by telling health officers that the bird was "a psittacosis menace to the community." In Manhattan, City Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne declared an embargo on parrot shipments from South America, advised parrot owners to wash their hands thoroughly after touching their birds...