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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Elliott Coues (1842–1899)

Coues, Elliott (kouz). An American naturalist; born at Portsmouth, NH, Sept. 9, 1842; died at Baltimore, Dec. 25, 1899. He wrote: ‘Key to North American Birds’ (1872); ‘Field Ornithology’ (1874); ‘Check-List of North American Birds’ (1882); ‘Biogen’; ‘The Dæmon of Darwin’; etc. With J. S. Kingsley, he edited the ‘Standard Natural History’ (3 vols., 1883).