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Index of Subjects On 6/15/2012 10:26 AM, Blake Maybank wrote: > So you think you have stamina? So you think you can sing? The Red-eyed > Vireo is a common bird, but an uncommon songster. In fact, it is a > record-holder. My latest blog post describes the wonderful story about > the Red-eyed Vireo, and an remarkable naturalist named Louise de > Kiriline Lawrence. > > http://blakemaybank.com/archives/1928 * "Louise’s own account of this remarkable event is related in one of her books, “To Whom The Wilderness Speaks.” The entire book may be read on-line at Google Books (click here)..." ...where you can also see some of the illustrations drawn for this book by Aleta. We met Louise, who was a really serious and dedicated naturalist, who worked on the real scientific problems her subjects posed, when Aleta went up to their place in Pimisi Bay to draw these illustrations. I understand that she got into ornithology through correspondence with Percy Taverner, the curator of ornithology at the National Museum of Canada, back in the days when curators had the time to individually write letters in reply to inquiries. fred. ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ South Nation Basin Art & Science Book http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------
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