Charles Johnson Maynard

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Charles Johnson Maynard (1845-1929) was an American naturalist and ornithologist born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was a collector and taxidermist. He was an expert on the vocal organs of birds.

He self-published many books, unusual for the period because they contained colour plates produced by a process that Maynard invented.

Maynard named the Caribbean subspecies of the Osprey, Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi, for another American ornithologist, Robert Ridgway

[edit] Selected publications

• The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history, with a complete catalogue of the birds of eastern Massachusetts (1870)
• The birds of eastern North America (1881)
• The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history (1887)
• A field ornithology of the birds of eastern North America (1916)
• Directory to the birds of eastern North America, illustrated with many wood cuts and ... plates drawn and engraved by the author (1907)

[edit] References

• The Newton Society