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WEE AUK : 
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 
ORNITHOLOGY. 
Von Xacxiv. APRIL, 1917. Now: 
IN MEMORIAM: WELLS WOODBRIDGE COOKE.! 
Born Jan. 25, 1858 — Died March 30, 1916. 
BY T. S. PALMER. 
Plate II. 
Mempers of the American Ornithologists’ Union who are in- 
terested in migration are familiar with the contributions which 
Middendorff of Russia, Palmén of Finland, Gatke of Heligoland, 
Harvie Brown of Scotland, and other European ornithologists have 
made to that puzzling branch of ornithology which deals with the 
seasonal movements of birds. And they will not hesitate to in- 
clude among the workers of the first rank in this field one of their 
own number who year after year labored patiently, persistently, 
and enthusiastically to raise the veil of mystery enveloping the 
habits of some of our common birds. In considering migration 
says Prof. Alfred Newton we “indeed are brought face to face 
with perhaps the greatest mystery which the whole animal king- 
dom presents:...The flow and ebb of the feathered tide has been 
sung by poets and discussed by philosophers, has given rise to 
proverbs and entered into popular superstitions, and yet we must 
say of it still that our ‘ignorance is immense!’ ? America’s contri- 
1 Address delivered at the thirty-fourth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14,1916. The accompanying plate is from a photograph 
taken in November, 1904. 
2 Dictionary of Birds, pp. 549-550, 1896. 
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