DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY 



SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, 



America's first and best systematic ornithologist; whose guiding 

 principle, "What is worth doing is worth doing well," is evident 

 through all his works; who labored for the advancement of science, 

 not for fame. Originator of the term "Middle America," and pioneer 

 in the ornithology of that geographic field, his Review of American 

 Birds, although scarcely more than begun, remains a perfect type of 

 systematic ornithology and the model from which many later writers 

 have drawn their inspiration. 



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