260 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



Coues,^" "I should say that the completion of that splen- 

 did series of plates with the name bairdii was significant ; 

 the glorious Audubonian sun had set indeed, but in the 

 dedicating of the species to his young friend Spencer 

 F. Baird the scepter was handed to one who was to wield 

 it with a force that no other ornithologist of America 

 has ever exercised." 



^ Bibliographical Appendix to Birds of the Colorado Valley (Bibl. 

 No. 181). 



