Death of Thomas Mcll wraith 



Thomas Mcllwraith, a member of Bird-Lore' S Advisory Council, 

 whose portrait appeared in the last issue of this magazine, died at his home 

 in Hamilton, Ontario, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, on January 31, 



1903. 



Mr. Mcllwraith was born in Newton, Ayr, Scotland, December 25, 

 1824, and came to Hamilton in 1853. Seven years later he published, in 

 the Canadian Journal, a list of birds which he had observed in the region. 

 This was followed by a more extended list, published in the Proceedings of 

 the Essex Institute for 1866. In 1886 the first edition of his ' Birds of 

 Ontario' appeared, and the second edition of this useful work (1894) is 

 still a standard. Mr. Mcllwraith was one of the twenty -five founders of * 

 the American Ornithologists' Union. 



What Bird is This? 



Field Description. — Length, 5.25 in. Line in front of crown, band behind ears, line over eye, throat and 

 breast pale yellow, fading into whitish belly; back grayish olive-green streaked with black and whitish, outer tail- 

 feathers, with more or less white; two white wing-bars; sides streaked with black. 



Note. — Each number of Bird-Lore will contain a photograph, from specimens in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, of some comparatively little-known bird, or 

 bird in obscure plumage, the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding 

 number of the magazine ; it being believed that this method of arousing the student's 

 curiosity will result in impressing the bird's characters upon his mind. The species 

 figured in February is the Saw-whet Owl. 



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