Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Limicolœ, by R.B. Sharpe
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, by R.B. Sharpe
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
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 Birds in the British Museum: Fulicaræ, (Rallidæ and Heliornithidæ) and Alectorides (Aramidæ, Eurypygidæ, Mesitidæ, Rhinochetidæ, Gruidæ, Psophiidæ, and Otididæ) by R.B. Sharpe. 1894
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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 Birds in the British Museum
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Coliomorphœ, containing the families Corridœ, Paradiseidœ, Oriolidœ, Dicruridœ, and Prionopidœ, by R.B. Sharpe
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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 Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. III, containing the family Fringillidœ, by R.B. Sharpe
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Cichlomorphœ: pt. I, containing the families Campophagidœ and Muscicapidœ, by R.B. Sharpe
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. I, containing the families Diciœidœ, Hirundinidœ, Ampelidœ, Mniotiltidœ and Motacillidœ by R.B. Sharpe
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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