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...flesh which an arbitrary heredity has draped around his neck. In the kennels, at Huntington, L. I., of Gerald M. Livingston, his forlorn yapping roused to dreary derision a crow in the near woods. Perhaps the basset hound puppy heard a prophecy in the dismal utterances of the black bird; what, he wondered, did the future hold for him, a prince of basset hounds, by Walhampton Andrew (titles: International Champion, English Champion, American Champion), out of Walhampton Dainty? The puppy yelped and whined, for he did not know...
Captain Malcolm Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h...
Consternation sent animals racing to their jungle cover on the Island of Komodo (one of the Dutch East Indies). A bird droned like a million flies above the trees...
...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...
...Last week Frederick Charles Lincoln of the U. S. Biological Survey (a division of the Department of Agriculture) announced that 1,000 or more volunteer bird lovers had banded 270,000 birds. Details are in the Department's pamphlet ''Returns from Banded Birds 1923 to 1926," which may be had for the asking. The cumulative information describes the life histories and economic advantages of birds...