Crossword-Solution: ORNITHOLOGY 11 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

For Ornithology, there is no book, after all, like dear old Bewick, _passé_ though he may be in a scientific point of view.

Not less interesting is the anecdote of Audubon, the American ornithologist, as related by himself: “An accident,” he says, “which happened to two hundred of my original drawings, nearly put a stop to my researches in ornithology.

CHAPTER XIII CHILOE AND CHONOS ISLANDS Chiloe--General Aspect--Boat Excursion--Native Indians--Castro--Tame Fox--Ascend San Pedro--Chonos Archipelago--Peninsula of Tres Montes--Granitic Range--Boat-wrecked Sailors--Low's Harbour--Wild Potato--Formation of Peat--Myopotamus, Otter and Mice--Cheucau and Barking-bird--Opetiorhynchus--Singular Character of Ornithology--Petrels.

Neither were they meant to bear reference to each other, so much as to the object on whom they were bestowed, as will be seen in the present case: a peacock with a turned-up nose being a novelty in ornithology, and a thing not commonly seen.

Meanwhile he kept steadily at work in his study of natural history, acquiring considerable knowledge of ornithology, entomology, and botany, and adding continually to his collection of botanical specimens.