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Prof. W.B. Hinton was an amateur bird collector and naturalist active during the late 1890s. He is best known in ornithological history for contributing rare North American bird specimens and oölogical (bird egg) records to major academic catalogues and the Smithsonian Institution. His field notes and collection data—primarily focused on North American species—were published in prominent natural history periodicals of the era, such as The Ornithologist and Oölogist.