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Index of Subjects --_000_2014101807293960540338938929680dalca_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is a fine and very readable biography of Taverner published as a spec= ial issue of the Canadian Field-Naturalist about 15 years ago. Can't. easi= ly resurrect the reference here on the opposite side of the Atlantic, but m= aybe I can come up with it later. Eric (on Fair Isle, Shetland) Eric L. Mills Lower Rose Bay Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia Canada From: Rick Whitman Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 23:45 To: naturens Reply To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] P. A. Taverner Biography The finding of a Brewer's Sparrow at Perce, PQ, thought to be the subspecie= s taverneri, and the reporting of this in the weekly ABA Rare Bird Alert, http://blog.aba.org/2014/10/rare-bird-alert-october-17-2014.html albeit mis-spelled, led Rick Wright to link to a charming biography of P. A= . Taverner. Taverner seems to have been the first Dominion Ornithologist an= d I expect there are number of us that can remember his "Birds of Canada" (= 1934) with coloured plates. This copy of the 1948 article from The Auk woul= d be a nice weekend read for some. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v065n01/p0085-p0106.p= df Rick Whitman --_000_2014101807293960540338938929680dalca_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <div style=3D"width:100%; font-size:initial; font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro= ',sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125); text-align:initial; background-color:rg= b(255,255,255)"> There is a fine and very readable biography of Taverner published as a spec= ial issue of the Canadian Field-Naturalist about 15 years ago. Can't.  = ;easily resurrect the reference here on the opposite side of the Atlantic, = but maybe I can come up with it later.</div> <div style=3D"width:100%; font-size:initial; font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro= ',sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125); text-align:initial; background-color:rg= b(255,255,255)"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"width:100%; font-size:initial; font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro= ',sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125); text-align:initial; background-color:rg= b(255,255,255)"> Eric</div> <div style=3D"width:100%; font-size:initial; font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro= ',sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125); text-align:initial; background-color:rg= b(255,255,255)"> (on Fair Isle, Shetland)</div> <div style=3D"width:100%; font-size:initial; font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro= ',sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125); text-align:initial; background-color:rg= b(255,255,255)"> <br style=3D"display:initial"> </div> <div style=3D"font-size:initial; font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif= ; color:rgb(31,73,125); text-align:initial; background-color:rgb(255,255,25= 5)"> Eric L. Mills <br> Lower Rose Bay<br> Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia <br> Canada</div> <table width=3D"100%" style=3D"background-color:white; border-spacing:0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan=3D"2" style=3D"font-size:initial; text-align:initial; backgroun= d-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <div id=3D"_persistentHeader" style=3D"border-style:solid none none; border= -top-color:rgb(181,196,223); border-top-width:1pt; padding:3pt 0in 0in; fon= t-family:Tahoma,'BB Alpha Sans','Slate Pro'; font-size:10pt"> <div><b>From: </b>Rick Whitman</div> <div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, October 17, 2014 23:45</div> <div><b>To: </b>naturens</div> <div><b>Reply To: </b>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</div> <div><b>Subject: </b>[NatureNS] P. A. Taverner Biography</div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style=3D"border-style:solid none none; border-top-color:rgb(186,188,20= 9); border-top-width:1pt; font-size:initial; text-align:initial; background= -color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </div> <br> <div> <div dir=3D"ltr">The finding of a Brewer's Sparrow at Perce, PQ, thought to= be the subspecies taverneri, and the reporting of this in the weekly ABA R= are Bird Alert, <div><br> </div> <div><a href=3D"http://blog.aba.org/2014/10/rare-bird-alert-october-17-2014= .html">http://blog.aba.org/2014/10/rare-bird-alert-october-17-2014.html</a>= <br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>albeit mis-spelled, led Rick Wright to link to a charming biography of= P. A. Taverner. Taverner seems to have been the first Dominion Ornithologi= st and I expect there are number of us that can remember his "Birds of= Canada" (1934) with coloured plates. This copy of the 1948 article from The Auk would be a nice weekend read fo= r some.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><a href=3D"https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v065n= 01/p0085-p0106.pdf">https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v= 065n01/p0085-p0106.pdf</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div>Rick Whitman</div> </div> </div> </body> </html> --_000_2014101807293960540338938929680dalca_--
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