Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
Author: Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
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ISBN: 9781022471733

This comprehensive catalog of birds contains detailed information on families Rhamphastidæ, Galbulidæ, Bucconidæ, Indicatoridæ, Capitonidæ, Cuculidæ, and Musophagidæ. With stunning illustrations and detailed descriptions of each bird, this book is a must-have for bird enthusiasts and researchers alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Tracheophonæ, or the families Dendrocolaptidæ, Formicariidæ, Conopophagidæ, and Pteroptochidæ, by P.L. Sclater. 1890

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Tracheophonæ, or the families Dendrocolaptidæ, Formicariidæ, Conopophagidæ, and Pteroptochidæ, by P.L. Sclater. 1890
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1890
Genre: Birds
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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 Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. II, containing the families Cœrebidœ, Tanagridœ, and Icteridœ, by P.L. Sclater

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. II, containing the families Cœrebidœ, Tanagridœ, and Icteridœ, by P.L. Sclater
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1886
Genre: Birds
ISBN:

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.