BIRDS OF CUBA 21 



The former has guided me through the intricate maze of transitory change 

 in the ornithological nomenclature, fashionable for the moment; the other 

 has labored to render my verbiage into human speech. Glover M. Allen 

 and James Lee Peters also have often given me much advice and assistance. 

 I want also to express a hope and make an admission. If my friend 

 C. T. Ramsden would only write up his lifelong experience with the birds 

 of the savanna of Santiago and the Guantanamo basin, no more valuable 

 record of Cuban bird life could ever be expected and I should be the first 

 to confess myself presumptuous to have attempted this present piece of 

 work except in so far as it applied to species which being western in their 

 distribution have not come into Ramsden's ken. May he undertake it at 

 once. I, myself, now feel the force of "fools rush in where angels fear to 

 tread." 



