Henry Eeles Dresser

“ Essentially an observer and open-air naturalist, he worked year after year, amassing the rich collection of mounted birds which has of recent years become so widely known, and collecting valuable notes, which were entered in his journal with the greatest regularity. ”

“ On whatever subject he wrote he displayed great originality of thought, and his pen was verily that of a ready writer. A firm friend and an excellent companion, he was also, as so often is the case, a somewhat bitter enemy. ”

“ Subsequent writers have to a large extent confused the Yellow-browed Warbler and Pallas's Willow Warbler, and the first specimen of the Yellow-browed Warbler obtained in Great Britain was recorded under the name of Regulus modestus, Gould.
Pallas's Willow Warbler has recently been found almost every year during migration on the western slopes of the Ural range, but has only once been obtained on Heligoland, and once seen, though not secured; thus it is still an extremely rare straggler in Europe west of the Ural. The British-killed specimen was shot by a son-in-law of Mr. ”

“ J.A. Allen, in the study of North American mammals, and especially in the publication of their work on the 'Fur-bearing Animals.' His separately published works, by which his name is best known, are the 'Key to North American Birds,' 'The Birds of the North-West,' 'The Birds of the Colorado Valley,' and 'Check-List of North American Birds'; but besides these, his various articles in periodicals are numerous, and of considerable value.
Dr. Coues was an unusually hard worker, as no trouble was too great for him when working out a difficult problem ”

“ Elliott Coues, who passed away on Christmas Day last at the comparatively early age of fifty-seven, was not only a most painstaking and hard-working cabinet naturalist, but equally good as a field naturalist, as shown by the good fieldwork he did during the many years he served as assistant-surgeon in the U.S. army. Not only was he one of the first authorities on North American ornithology, but he also did excellent work, in conjunction with Mr. ”

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1931, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”