National Day in China is like the Fourth of July at home — firecrackers and fireworks, picnics and outings, patriotic speeches and all the pomp that circumstance can muster. For the foreign experts at Nanjing University it meant an all-day outing to Mount Langya in Anhui Province.

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The coscorobas have a wonderfully detached, rather languid manner of rising from the water and flying, well befitting their aristocratic air. Graceful, too, in their smaller proportion were the brown or Chilean pintails, …

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