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...fleshy, usually highly-colored process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile...
...Guano, bird dung, valuable because of its nitrate content for fertilizer. When the rains came, the nitrates, escaping as ammonia, left the guano agriculturally impotent...
...Wild Duck is a symbol-a bird that, when wounded by the hunter, digs itself in the weeds and dies. The hunter of the play is a young idealist who comes to a middleclass, satisfied household and splinters their illusions. In the hope that he may lead them to a newer, finer life of honesty, he tells the husband that his wife has been another's mistress. The father shuns his child, fearing he may not really be her father. The child kills herself. The point of the play is put in the mouth of the old doctor...
...election in Kansas, more than 300,000 children voted and elected the Western Meadowlark (Rep.) the State bird of Kansas. The Meadowlark did not have anything like a majority, but it led the field with 48,395 votes, a plurality over the Quail (Dem.) and the Cardinal Bird (Prog.). The election was conducted by the Audubon Society...
...Allen '01 of the University faculty will deliver the last of a series of lectures tonight on birds which he has been giving this winter at the Boston Society of Natural History under the auspices of the New England Bird Banding Association. His subject tonight will be "Birds at Rest...