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Show ':'f . : ! ;4.r'n;f t! hrt f A iiiwiumm'W"11'.! mJm n'liii i yJi(iii m& WillMli Mm dWFHtok, TstW. H fw FMwt lii It'lflK i .I v''"!''!' 'tlJ' 'ii"..' .'"'.tin -1 XfiTw Wl PasSjBBlHPjPMHHtkBailHeXeMSW . h mil ii nimmi n mi hi w mimmummmi THE BIRDMAN. Richard Dotson, left, presents bald eagle to Southern Utah State College through Kumen Gard ner, chairman of the Institutional Council. SUS "birdiiian" enriches collodion tion covers minutely the characteristic and habits of this particular bird and was written after hundreds of hours of research and first hand observation. Prof. Dotson graduated from the U of U Cum Laude'ln 1969 and was recipient of an NDEA Fellowship to continue graduate grad-uate study from 1969 to 1971. He attended Dixie College in 1961-62. From 1962 to 1964 he filled an LDtS Church mission to Australia. He is a native of West Jor-don, Jor-don, Utah. His wife, the former form-er Maralyn Schmidt, is also from West Jot don. They are the parents of three children, Elizabeth 5, Robert 3, and Dar-de Dar-de 1. Richard A. Dotson, instruct-or instruct-or in zoology at Southern Utah State College, is commonly known at SUSC as "the bird-man." bird-man." His enthusiasm for the study of birds has become contagious among biological science students and others whose "only interest in birds heretofore has been in the hunting and eating of wild and domestic fowl. Since Joining the SUSC faculty fac-ulty in September, 1971, Prof. Dotson has been instrumental in adding some 150 bird mounts and bird skins to the college study collection through his skill in taxidermy taxi-dermy and his persuasiveness as a trader, he and his following fol-lowing students have mounted mount-ed a couple of dozen specimens speci-mens in life like stances. He has bargained for the loan, or contribution, of 126 ftudy skins from other institutions, particularly the University of Utah. Bird mounts completed this year by Prof. Dotson and his students include a number of ring-necked pheasants, chukkar partridge, roadrunner, and sage grouse. He also salvaged sal-vaged a bald eagle which was brought to the department depart-ment by the Fish and Game agency after it was discovered ! west of Cedar City, dead from a gunshot wound. Many of Prof. Dotson's mounts and those of Prof. Steve Taylor, SUSC industrial arts teacher, and Bryan Muir, SUSC student from Milford, are currently on display in the SUSC Library. The study skins received from the U. of U., from which institution Prof. Dotson earned earn-ed B5. and MS. degrees, include in-clude a tufted puffin, a bird common in the North Pacific area, and a black guillemot, a member of the auk family. Another study bird rarely found in Utah is the black tern. The skin collection also includes a number of birds common to the area which SUSC students have now learned to recognize and name by characteristics. Prof. Dotson wrote his master's thesis on the "Biology "Biolo-gy of the Green-tailed Tow-hee." Tow-hee." The 150 pa;e publica- |