The New International Encyclopædia/Chamberlain, Montague

CHAMBERLAIN, Montague (1844—). A Canadian ornithologist, born at Saint John, New Brunswick. In 1890 he became recorder of Harvard University, and in 1893 secretary of the Lawrence Scientific School. He was one of the founders of the American Ornithological Union. Besides a revision of Nuttall's Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America (1872), he has published the following important works and lectures: Catalogue of Birds of New Brunswick; Catalogue of Mammals of New Brunswick; Systematic Table of Birds of Canada; Birds of Field and Grove; Song Birds of New England; Birds' Nests; Mental and Moral Characteristics of the Indians; Past, Present, and Future of the Indians.