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“It has long been a matter of surprise and regret, that in a country so celebrated for its splendid productions in every department of science, the study of Ornithology should have been so long neglected.”
“I have given my life to the study of grotesquely beautiful birds.”
“A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as by their colours and shape; on the ground as well as on the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand.”