Excerpt from Bird Lore: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsAs an ornithologist. He was eminent as an anatomist. Systematist, nomenclator. Bibliographer. And biographer. Doubtless his peers exist in any of these branches cl the science cl birds. But one searches in vain for another individual who might claim to be his equal in all, and this deliberate estimate at his rank places Elliott Cones foremost among ornithologists. - F. M. C.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.