Birds of the West Indies

The man on the left is an ornithologist who wrote the book on the right, which was used by an author and became a symbol of masculinity the world over in a certain way.
Can you identify the ornithologist’s name?
birds of west indies

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James Bond
Birds of the West Indies was a book owned by novelist Ian Fleming, who used the name for his own fictional British secret agent character. He later explained that the author's name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine – just what I needed."