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List of the Specimens of Birds. Part IV: Columbae

Author: George Robert Gray
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Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Columbæ, or pigeons, by T. Salvidori. 1893

Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Museum added eagerly to their already vast collections during the decades of publication, acquiring by gift the great collections of A.O. Hume on Asian birds, and those of Sclater and Salvin and Godwin on Neotropical birds, so that the size of the collection nearly tripled between 1874 and 1888. Sharpe originally intended to do all the work himself, but others were called in when this became clearly impossible. The plates are all of birds not previously illustrated. In the decades following its publication this catalogue was universally acclaimed as the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published. (Zimmer, p. 96). And even after one hundred years it remains an essential reference for the serious ornithologist, as it underpins a great deal of modern bird classification. With 387 plates, most hand-coloured lithographs, some chromolithographs, by William Hart, J.G. Keulemans, Joseph and Peter Smit.

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Extinct Birds

Author: Julian P. Hume
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937457
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 581

Book Description
A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.

List of the Specimens of Birds. Part IV: Columbae

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Columbæ, or pigeons, by T. Salvidori. 1893

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore

Extinct Birds

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...

Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes

The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria

The Birds of North and Middle America: Family Cuculidae. Family Psittacidae. Family Columbidae

Bulletin of the United States National Museum

Bulletin