Death of Thomas McIlwraith
Thomas McIlwraith. a member of BIRD-LURE) 5 Advisory Council. whose portrait appeared in the last issue of this magazine. died at his home in Hamilton, Ontario. in the seventyininth year of his age. on January 31,
1903. Mr. Mcllwraith was born in Newton, Arr. Scotland. December 25,
1824, and came to Hamilton in 1855 Seven years later he published, in
the Canadian Journal. a list of birds which he had observed in the region.
This was followed by a more extended list, published in the Proceedings of
the Essex Institute for 1866‘ In 1886 the first edition of his ‘Birds of
()ntario‘ appeared, and the second edition of this useful work (1894) is
still a standard. Mr. Mcllwraith was one of the twentyrfive founders of l the American ()rnithologists‘ Union
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