I FBroAY, BIARCH 8, 1929 



E.H.Forbush, 

 Ornithologist, 

 Dies, Aged 70 



Served Stale 33 Years — ^Wrole 

 MonumenfaT Work on Bay 

 Slatt^ Birds 



Edward Howe Korbusli, seventy, for 

 thirty-eight yearr State ornithologist of 

 Massachusetts, r ntU his retirement April 

 14, 192S, died of pneumonia this morning 

 '>isi liornc in '\\ estboro. Me liad never 

 fully recovered from injuries sustalnet. 



lif wils liit hy an automobile in 

 Waslilnfrton and left lying in the street 

 hy tho driver. Dr. Forbusli popularized 

 bird lore in MnssachusetfB, and left a. 

 Bclentific record of bird life in New Eng- 

 land never before aprproached In thorough- 

 nes.-". He wa.s a native of Quincy. 



The outstanding mon'jment to Mr. For- 

 bush la his compilation of •'The Blrd.i of 

 Massaehusetta and Other New England 

 StateK" sponsored by Hie C onunonweaJth. 

 Th« first two volumes have been published 

 and Mr. Korbush had been over-working 

 :n an effort to oompletc the third volume. 

 There is not a bird whose dre.ss. song and 

 liablla Mr. Forbusl* was not familiar, 

 through personal observations, and few 

 pens have been as eloquent as his In the 

 neld or bird lore. His rise in the aclennc 

 of ornithology and related sub.1ects to be- 

 ror,.p an accepted authority vs"aa remarl<- 

 able tn view, of the fact that he left school i 

 When fifteen years oid. _ J 



