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...could learn facts about them which naturalists have been able only to surmise. In the September-October issue of Natural History, published this week, Lord Grey reveals many facts unknown to U. S. sportsmen & naturalists concerning the love-life of a distinguished native of North America, the canvasback duck (Nyroca valisineria...
...Fallodon, near the Scottish border, Lord Grey has established two duck sanctuaries, in & about two small ponds surrounded by high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...
...Coarse Duck." French observers roundly declared that what the German President did was to pass from infraction of the Treaty of Versailles to actual violation...
...trade for a clerk is bird-painting. A man must be patient, curious, hardy, sharp-eyed, indomitable beyond belief. He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally...
...strings. There was plenty of material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck hat and a flaring pair of white flannel shorts, won his first match easily. Edward Burns Jr. of Brooklyn won the longest championship set of the day-20-18- against E. D. Yeomans of last year's crack North Carolina team. . . . Richard Norris Williams II, national champion...