Excerpt from A Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds: An Address Delivered Before the Second International Ornithological Congress on the 18th of May, 1891
Forbes, only four days before his death on the Niger, wrote in his diary My final idea as to the classification of birds (cf. Ibis, 1884, p. 119)
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