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Dend from a broken neek apparently caused by flying into Widener Library, a Red Phalarope, a rare sea bird whose male sits on the nest and cares for the young birds, was picked up Tuesday afternoon in front of Wigglesworth Hall. This is two weeks earlier than the Phalarope has ever before been found in Massachusetts, according to James L. Peters, Curator of birds in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, who identified the bird...
...quite likely that the team will make a better showing. HARVARD TUFTS Brecker, g. g., Urbon Livingston, Wilcox, pt. pt., Kempton Maguin, Ferris c.p. c. pt. O'Brien, Silva Bloter, ld. ld., Hammond Baker, Blanchard, Tanner 2d. 2d., Dolben Downey, Doughty, Flinn, c, c., Conforti Willard, Holstead, Sullivan, Bird, 2a. 2a., Gould, Yale Hunraker, la. la., Sullivan (Capt.) Cleveland, Shepard, o.h. o.h., Barselow, Speare, Williams Hammond, Gordon, ih. i.h., Bounakes, Beckford...
Died. Dr. George Bird Grinnell, 88, founder of the Audubon Society; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...dance "the smelt run," a cross between the shag and the big apple. At week's end the festival wound up with an afternoon parade and a mammoth bonfire at a nearby river. To this last flocked natives and visitors alike, armed to the ears with butterfly nets, bird cages, sieves, kitchen strainers, washtubs and burlap bags, for the season's wildest smelt...
...PRAIRIE GROVE-Donald Culross Peattie-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Lush essay on an island grove of the Illinois prairie, with informative flash backs on its prehistoric bird & animal life, less original glimpses of its pioneer days...