Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. Birds
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Lutley Sclater
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Published: 1888
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Published: 1877
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 18
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 431
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-06-30
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1408133261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Joel Asaph Allen
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 494
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 596
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