Birds of Western Pennsylvania

W. E. (Walter Edmond) Clyde Todd (1874-1969).

Birds of Western Pennsylvania, with Twenty-two Plates in Color. Illustrating 118 Species from the Original Drawings by George Miksch Sutton. [Pittsburg]: Univ. of Pittsburg Press [c1940].

Clyde first worked in Washington D.C. for Department of Agriculture where his primary duty was classifying and preserving bird stomachs in alcohol. In 1898 he started working at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, and then became the curator its ornithology collection. During his time at the Museum, he produced two major works, Birds of Western Pennsylvania (1940) and Birds of the Labrador Peninsula and Adjacent Areas (1963). Walter Edmond Clyde is considered to be one of the greatest ornithologists who studied the birds of Pennsylvania.