Mary LeCroy was the senior scientific assistant in the department of ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, where she is now research associate. She received her B.S. in biology from Columbia University. LeCroy has published numerous papers in scholarly journals, many of them based on her extensive field studies of birds of Papua, New Guinea.
Elsie Margaret Binger Naumburg was a researcher of South American avifauna and a gazetteer with the American Geographical Society. She put her research on hold during World War II to aid refugee and unemployed musicians.
