ALEXANDER WILSON. QQ 



ical sympathy with the birds whereby his descriptions of their 

 looks and ways and faculties take the colouring of so many 

 little biographies of personal friends." 



Sir William Jardine says of Wilson : " He was the first who 

 truly studied the birds of North America in their natural 

 abodes, and from real observations ; and his work will ever 

 remain an ever-to-be-admired testimony of enthusiasm and 

 perseverance one certainly unrivalled in descriptions; and if 

 some plates and illustrations may vie with it in finer workman- 

 ship or pictorial splendour, few, indeed, can rival it in fidelity 

 and truth of delineation." 



