Edward H. Burtt, Jr.;, William E. Davis, Jr. Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology. x + 444 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. $35

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