Wilmot Wood Brown Jr.

Wilmot Wood Brown Jr. (ca. 1878–1953)

He grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he began collecting specimens of local bird species. In contemporary times, Clark has been criticized for his apathy towards bird conservation; he collected species known to be in decline. He was the last known collector of the Cuban oriole on Grand Cayman Island (though the bird still lives in Cuba) and the final collector of the extinct Grand Cayman thrush. Because rare birds were in high demand by collectors, Brown likely created bounties for local hunters to kill certain species and bring them to him, including the now-extinct imperial woodpecker. and the snakes Micrurus browni and Mixcoatlus browni.