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Also Known As Margaret Morse
Born December 6, 1883 • Amherst • Massachusetts
Died June 26, 1974 (aged 90) • Chicago • Illinois
Subjects Of Study song sparrow
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
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John Martin
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