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...dead of night. Revelers in. evening clothes uncorked champagne bottles for actresses who did not mind sitting on the grass. Peasants were satisfied with good red wine and longish sandwiches. Suddenly, at 3:15 a. m., the plainsfolk scampered toward other folk who cheered as a huge, ghostly bird emerged from a huger tent...
...purpose of the Austin party to make a bird census of the Labrador coast. The effect of the relentless bird slaughter of the natives on bird life will be carefully studied. Among the birds who will be studied are the Great Black Backed Gull, Glaucus Gull, Herring, Gull, Puffins, Razor Billed Aul, Black Guillemot, and Arctic Tern...
...Young birds will be captured, banded, and then released. Formerly bird bands were made of aluminum but the ones used by the Austin party will be made of rust proof monel...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
Lately she undertook the responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood. She wrote Falling Seeds in a deserted monastery outside of Florence (Italy), in an opposite wing of which, her husband, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., able Princeton ('23) baritone (son of the author of What Bird Is That? and many another ornithological classic), was exercising for grand opera...