BAILEY, FLORENCE MERRIAM ), Ameri can ornithologist, sister of C. Hart Merriam (q.v.), was born at Locust Grove, N. Y., on Aug. 8, 1863. She graduated at Smith college in 1886 and in 1899 married Vernon Bailey (q.v.) . She became a devoted and able student of birds, especially those of western North America, and a prolific writer on ornithological subjects, publishing upwards of loo papers, the most noteworthy of which were field studies contributed to the Auk and the Condor, together with several valuable larger works.