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Eccentric ornithologist and editor dies in San Antonio
On this day in 1985, Edgar Bryan Kincaid, Jr., died in San Antonio, the
city where he was born. Released by wealth from regular work, Kincaid
had spent ten years, beginning in 1963, editing Harry C. Oberholser's
Bird Life of Texas. He reduced the massive three-million-word
manuscript by two-thirds and chopped a 572-page bibliography to thirty
pages--thus making this classic work accessible. In his later years,
Kincaid became quite reclusive, not wanting to see the highways and
houses that intruded upon previously wild areas. He called himself
Cassowary and his close friends by other bird names. His fear of
burglars was realized when he was robbed in his own house at gunpoint,
after which he developed a fever and died.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- KINCAID, EDGAR BRYAN, JR.
- OBERHOLSER, HARRY CHURCH
- BIRDS
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