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Discovery Tours 
EAST AFRICA SAFARI 
Feb. 3 to 21, 1982 
Feb. 24 to March 14, 1982 
Discover the exotic world of East Africa on game -» 
drives with the American Museum's Curator of 
Mammals, Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder. Twenty-five 
participants will visit the major wildlife reserves 
of Kenya and Tanzania. Countless zebra and wilde- 
beest, scores of elephants, giraffes and lions will 
be viewed from custom made Landcruisers. Spend 
nights under canvas in comfortable tented camps, 
as well as in luxurious lodges and hotels. Meticulous 
travel arrangements will be provided to the Museum 
by Park East Tours. For further information, write to: 
DISCOVERY TOURS 
American Museum of Natural History 
Central Park West at 79 St. 
New York, N Y. 10024 or call (212) 873-1440 
Mister, You Got 
Yourself a Horse ‘ 
Tales of Old-Time Horse Trading 
Edited, with an introduction, by Roger L. WeJsch 
Plains folklorist Roger Welsch edits a lively collection of stories by a group of 
master storytellers — those old-time travelling horse traders. He presents these 
first-hand accounts just as they were told to Federal Writers Project fieldworkers 
in the 1930s, and he supplies background information on the narrators and their 
craft. 
Whether you read them as folklore, history, or literary narrative, these stories 
radiate the gusto of a growing country and the humor, personality, and adven- 
tures of that legendary American figure — the horse trader, xii. 207 pages. 
also available 
$14.95 
Buckaroos in Paradise 
Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada 
By Howard W. Marshall and Richard E. Ahlborn 
This "catalog of an exhibition held at the Smithsonian Institution documents a 
way of life that has changed little since the 1860s. Buckaroos in Paradise shows 
the life of the buckaroo from three major perspectives: his geographical and 
historial setting, his tools, and his bunkhouse. xvi, 96 pages, 151 photographs. 
Paper BB 784 $15.95 
University of Nebraska Press 
901 North 17th Lincoln 68588 
JL 
ings of the Boston Society of Natural 
History , vol. 42, pp. 1-1 19, July 1941). 
Palmer’s report, based on his fieldwork 
in Maine, contains little on taxonomy, 
ranges, and migration, but it does in- 
clude a compact life history. It also 
focuses on aspects of the environment 
that affect the tern’s breeding season 
and the bird’s behavior during the 
breeding cycle. Life Histories of North 
American Gulls and Terns, by A.C. 
Bent (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 
1947), includes the habits of each bird, 
its food, plumage, voice, range, court- 
ship, eggs, young, nest, and migration. 
Bent includes a section on the least tern, 
focusing on its habits and distribution 
(pp. 170-79). I. Nesbit, who studied 
terns in Cape Cod for four years, observ- 
ing their nesting behavior and trying to 
discover the reason for their population 
decrease, wrote extensive captions for 
National Geographic's photo essay 
“Friend of the Wind: The Common 
Tern,” with photographs by H. Alexan- 
der (August 1973, pp. 234-47). “Late- 
Blooming Terns,” by RA. Buckley and 
F.G. Buckley ( Natural History, April 
1976, pp. 46-55), discusses the mating, 
nesting, and nurturing behavior of the 
royal tern, including descriptions of the 
variety of coloration in the royal tern’s 
eggs and chicks, the phenomenon of 
creche-forming, and the extended devel- 
opmental period of the young. M. Har- 
wood’s “Dawn to Dark, Day In and Day 
Out, Tern Study Is a Labor of Love” 
{Smithsonian, August 1980, pp. 28-37) 
is an account of life on an island “labora- 
tory” devoted to tern study told in a 
humorous and informative manner. 
I ha 
Weathering Heights (p. 72) 
C. von Fiirer-Haimendorf’s The 
Sherpas of Nepal (Berkeley: University 
of California Press, 1964) covers the 
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