The Birds of Cuba (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Birds of Cuba

IT was my original intention to write this work in collaboration with an old friend, Winthrop Sprague Brooks, and we prepared together a card catalogue of the Cuban birds in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, as a preparatory step to recall the material to mind. The scope of the project, however, was changed, and press of work in separate institutions made it impossible for us to do it together. I have, therefore, essayed the task alone, and have concluded not simply to prepare a paper which would describe my Cuban material but rather to attempt a work which may be useful to the increasing number of amateurs of field ornithology who now visit Cuba, for these serious observers find nothing accessible in English which will give them any clue to the birds they may see. It may serve also to answer some questions which I have often been asked by the ever increasing number of English-speaking residents in Cuba and the Isle of Pines.

For a charming companionship and a patient tolerance of my erratic ways I owe more to Winthrop Sprague Brooks than I can well express. For many years it has been Brooks' good fortune and mine to visit Cuba frequently, and during the War we were there for long periods of many months' duration. Our duties during this time did not permit of much collecting, but constant travelling afforded many chances for observation. On previous and subsequent journeys we have made extensive collections, all of which are now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, except such specimens as have been distributed in exchange.

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