Allen, J. A.   Curator of Birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, American Museum of Natural History; Editor of the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club; Cofounder of A.O.U. and first editor of The Auk.

Amadon, Dean   President, A.O.U. (1964-1966); American Museum of Natural History, New York; Coauthor with Leslie Brown of Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World, Country Life Books, 1968.

Banks, Richard C.   President of A.O.U. (1994-1996); USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Biological Survey Project, National Museum of Natural History; President of the Wilson Ornithological Society, (1991-1993); Author of  Obsolete English Names of North American Birds and Their Modern Equivalents

Brewster, William   Cofounder, Nuttall Ornithological Club and A.O.U.; Honorary Curator of Birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard; Author of Birds of the Cambridge Region, 1906..

Cicero, Carla   Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; Author of Sibling Species of Titmice in the Parus inornatus Complex, University of California Publications, Zoology, Vol. 128; Coauthor with N. K. Johnson of Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variability in Two Species of Sparrows of the Genus Amphispiza, Proc. 20th Int. Ornithol. Congr., pp. 600-10, 1990.

Coues, Elliott   Cofounder of A.O.U.; Surgeon, United States Army; Author of A Checklist of North American Birds, 1873, and Key to North American Birds, 5 editions in 2 vols., 1872-1903.

Dunn, Jon L.   Chief Consultant for the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 3 editions, 1983-1999.

Dwight, Jonathan   Pesident (1899-1921) Linnaean Society of New York; Author of Sequence of Plumage and Moults of the Passerine Birds of New York, Annals New York Academy of Sciences (8), 1900.

Eisenmann, Eugene   President, Linnaean Society of New York; Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History; Member, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; Author of The Species of Middle American Birds, Trans. Linn. Soc. N.Y. 7:1-128, 1955; Editor (1958-59) of The Auk.

Fitzpatrick, Jown W.   Bird Division, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago;

Friedmann, Herbert   President of A.O.U. (1938-39); Curator, Division of Birds, U. S. National Museum; Author of The Cowbirds: A Study in the Biology of Social Parasitism, C. C. Thomas, 1929.

Grinnell, Joseph   Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Professor of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; Editor of The Condor; Coauthor with A. H. Miller of The Distribution of the Birds of California.

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Johnson, Ned K.   President, A.O.U. (1996-1998); Professor of Ornithology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; Coauthor with C. Cicero of Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variability in Two Species of Sparrows of the Genus Amphispiza, Proc. 20th Int. Ornithol. Congr., pp. 600-10, 1990.

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Lowery, Jr., George H.   Professor of Zoology and Director, Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge; President of A.O.U. (1959-1961); Coauthor of Checklist of Birds of the World, Vol. 14, Mus. Comp. Zool., 1968; Author of Louisiana Birds, 3 editions, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1955-1974.

Merriam, C. Hart   Cofounder of A.O.U. and Secretary-Treasurer; Director, Division of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture; Author of Review of the Birds of Connecticut, with Remarks on their Habits, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Transactions 4:1-150, 1882.

Miller, Alden H.   Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Professor of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; Member, National Academy of Sciences.

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Wetmore, Alexander   Director, U. S. National Museum and Smithsonian Institution; President of A.O.U. (1926-1929); Coauthor with W. DeW. Miller of The Revised Classification for the Fourth Edition of the A.O.U. Check-list, 1926; Author of The Birds of the Republic of Panama, 1965-72 (Vol. 4 posthumous by associates).

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