Bird

Bird, ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1805-54), practised for a year as a physician, but, turning to literature, wrote three tragedies, The Gladiator, Oraloosa, and The Broker of Bogota; and a series of novels, comprising Calavar (1834) and The Infidel (both dealing with the Spanish conquest of America), The Hawks of Hawk Hollow, Sheppard Lea, Nick of the Woods (1837, a tale of Kentucky during the Revolutionary War), Peter Pilgrim (short stories), and Robin Day (1839).