"New Mexico has the distinction of being the first State in the Union from which bird notes were recorded by white men. These notes refer to birds seen on the in 1540, three hundred and eighty-eight years ago, eighty-two years before the first recorded birds were seen in New England (see 's New English Canaan, printed in 1637). The actual study of the birds of New Mexico has attracted naturalists from the the days of the earliest explorations that crossed parts of New Mexico, the first records being made on the . ... The systematic survey of New Mexico was definitely undertaken in 1903, under the direction of , then Chief of the Biological Survey; and , who had just completed a survey of the adjoining State of Texas, .. was put in charge of the work."
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Florence Merriam Bailey
(née Florence Augusta Merriam; August 8, 1863 – September 22, 1948) was an American , , and prolific . In 1929 the elected her their first female Fellow. In 1931 she became the first woman to receive the . In 1933 the awarded her an honorary doctorate.
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