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Figure 1. Minor natural history periodicals published in the and Canada, 1870-1930. 15 Figure 2. Cover of Random Notes on Natural History, 1884. Museums Library, University of Michigan Library. 16 Figure 3. Cover of specimen price list, Goodale and Frazer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890. Courtesy of Archives, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History. 18 Figure 4. Collectors gathering "rare birds and eggs" in Florida, 1888. Drawn by Joseph Becker, in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 7 January 1888. 22 Figure 5. William Brewster, with his collecting pistol, ca. 1890. Museum of Comparative Zoology Archives, Harvard University. 29 Figure 6. Illustration of how to skin a bird, 1894. From Davie, Methods in the Art of Taxidermy. Museums Library, University of Michigan Library. 34 Figure 7. Advertisement for Bean's breech-loading gun cane, 1889. From the Ornithologist and Oologist 14 (June 1889): inside back cover. 36 Figure 8. Plate of the field sparrow's nest and eggs, from Jones and Jones, Illustrations of the Nest and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 1886. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan Library. 44 Figure 9. Cover of the Ornithologist and Oologist, 1884. 55 Figure 10. American Ornithologists' Union group photograph, 1895. Archives, Hartley H. T. Jackson Papers, RU 7172, Negative #96-3183. 64 Figure 11. Membership in the American Ornithologists' Union, 1883-1932. 68 Figure 12. Smithsonian Institution Bird Gallery, 1885. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Alexander Wetmore Papers, RU 7006, Box 195, Negative #96-3532. 78 Figure 13. Baird's list of red-winged blackbird specimens, 1858. From Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence's, Pacific Railroad Survey Report, p. 258. 80 Figure 14. Allen's list of red-winged blackbird specimens, 1871. From Allen, "Mammals and Winter Birds of East Florida," p. 287. 82 Figure 15. North American bird forms, 1814-1931. 97 Figure 16. The American Splitters' Union headquarters, 1900. Drawn by "Squib" for Condor 3 (1901): [195], Museum Library, University of Michigan Library. 98 Figure 17. Audubon's engraving of the Carolina parakeet. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. 103 Figure 18. Frank Chapman and William Brewster preparing bird specimens in Florida, 1890. Museum of Comparative Zoology Archives, Harvard University. 105 Figure 19. William Brewster with an ivory-billed woodpecker, 1890. Museum of Comparative Zoology Archives, Harvard University. 115 Figure 20. Cover of Auduhon Magazine, 1887. Museum Library, University of Michigan Library. 119 Figure 21. William and Basil Dutcher skinning a , ca. late 1870s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, American Ornithologists' Union, Records, RU 7159, Box 85, Negative #96-3134. 129 Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure 22. Junior Audubon Society of Sutton, West Virginia, 1915. From Bird-Lore 17 (1915): 328. 131 Figure 23. Alexander Wetmore with bird collection, 1901. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Photograph Collection, RU 95, Negative #17021. 138 Figure 24. George W. Morse with his egg collection, 1929. From Oologist 46(1929): 157. 140 Figure 25. Illustration of tanagers from Chapman's Color Key to North America Birds, 1903. 159 Figure 26. Field glasses and binoculars, ca. 1920s. Courtesy of Archives, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 160 Figure 27. Trade card depicting a red-breasted grosbeak, 1898. 162 Figure 28. Woodcut from Robert Wood's How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, 1907. 163 Figure 29. Cartoon depicting birdwatchers, 1935. 164 Figure 30. Mrs. F. T. Bicknell in the field, 1918. From Bird-Lore 20 (1918): 98. 168 Figure 31. Caricature of Joseph Grinnell, 1927. Archives, Museum of Comparative Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. 188 Figure 32. Examining the Rothschild Bird Collection, ca. early 1930s. Negative #314574. Photo by Julius Kirschner. Courtesy Department of Library Services, American Museum of Natural History. 192 Figure 33. Caricature of T. S. Palmer, 1927. Bird Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 202