Ornithosauria and other oddities in natural history
An excerpt notes Ornithosauria as extinct flying lizards with hollow bones and winged forelimbs, among the greatest flying creatures. It mentions a large fish hawk nest repairable for seasons and birds nesting among debris when trees fall. Also cites the Orinoco River as the shortest of three great South American rivers at 1490 miles, with Amazon and Rio de la Plata larger, and defines outcrop in geology as surface edges of strata or the apex of a mineral vein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orinoco
South America
Amazon
Rio de la Plata
Blue-eye Birds Nesting Habits and Other Australian Facts
Factographs note the blue-eye is a blue-faced honey eater common in New South Wales, nesting in large round droop nests of starling-like birds. Other items mention Indians with varied masks, fast kangaroos around 40 mph, otter tails one third body length, and hall specimens reaching 7 to 8 feet and 400 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Wales
Australia
Puzzle Corner Across and Down Word Scramble
A scrambled cryptogram style puzzle appears with garbled clues across and down. Readers must decipher through misprinted phrases to extract hints like Crown, Beak, Signal, and various short wordplay entries while noting errors in text and stray capitalized terms embedded throughout the grid.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Uplanders
Etta Kett
Burke
Wil Hesse
Luke
Agen of
Night
Lon
Brick
Shi
Brenda
Togo
Horkay
Grandma
William Ritt
and Clarence Gray
Lon Keno
Big Sister
Kit
Paul Robinson
Taice ME
Wally Bishop
Felix the Cat
Scott
Nolanda
MR. Wilby
Byles
Ill
R. J. Scott
Briers
Stanley
Kentucky ‘Stree
Moah
Baltimore
Mary Deane Laney Monroe
Aoah
Harry
Egsmire
Chadwick III
Sally
Daily Crossword
Rhode Island
Taradi
Penn
Persia
Switzerland
Nonce
Paris
Oat Ewan Ht
Roe de Packhorse
Cnet Cat
Sylvania
Yans of
Ring Ng
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