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Breeding Habits and Eggs, by Captain Charles Bendire, aiul 

 the various other National Museum and Government Reports. 

 One cannot examine tlie Ornitholos^ical writings of such 

 men as D'Orbigny, Bechstein, Sclater, Salvin, Elliott, 

 Gould, Tschiidi, Hartlaub, Gosse, Cassin, Hudson, and 

 a perfect host of others, who have described thousands of spe- 

 cies, without wonder and amazement at the amount of accu- 

 mulated new material from which to draw new deductions and 

 even a newer classification, which shall be more thorough and 

 more accurate in detail than any that has hitherto appeared. 

 The present revertion of writers of the present day to the 

 systems of Lilljeborg and of Sundevai.t^ is evidence of 

 their depth of thought, boldness of design, and definite con- 

 ceptions of the general relations of both the higher and the 

 lower groups of Birds. 



From the following selected List of Ornithological Writers 

 write a composition upon, or short life history of, all or any 

 of the persons iudicated, and illustrate the peculiar manner in 

 Avhich they have become known to the world as Ornitholo- 

 gists. Give name, place and date of birth, nationality, date 

 of death, and the most prominent and important works or 

 writings of each. Arrange the names in three groups : 1st. 

 Noted Ornithologists with a world-wide reputation as such ; 

 2nd. Those whose works are well-known and an authority, 

 but who were not Ornithologists but men of eminence in other 

 departments, often, who made the study of Birds a recreation 

 or of minor consideration. 3rd. Those whose names and 

 works are generally little known and rarely cited, except upon 

 some technical or obscure historic point. Encyclopedias and 

 works upon Biography and Natural History will be the means 

 through which to obtain this information. 

 Agassiz, Louis, Bachman, Rev. John, 



Aldrovandus, Ulysses, Bserii, Nichol, 



Aristotle, Baird, Spencer F., 



Audubon, John James, Barrere, Pierre, 



