Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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: Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinæ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. 1893
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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 Game Birds (Pterocletes, Gallinae, Opisthoeomi, Hemipodii)
Author: Grant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinœ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinœ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinæ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinœ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
Author: James A. Jobling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408133261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408133261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
A Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia
Author: Allan Brooks
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Cooper Ornithological Club
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Cooper Ornithological Club
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
Author: British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinœ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description