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Being a Bird in , North of Finding in San . Volume 1: Diego County, California Waterfowl to Shorebirds Henry Detwiler, 2016. Robert Alvo. Published by the A guide to the most productive author, 2015. locations to watch birds, With A humorous yet serious take a seasonal calendar, maps, on the biodiversity and directions, target bird lists, and conservation of North extensive notes. American species. 14663 146 pp. Paperback $18.50 14628 255 pp. Hardcover $39.95 Book of Texas Birds Birdwatching in New York Gary Clark. Texas A&M City and on Long Island University, 2016. Deborah Rivel and Kellye Written in a conversational tone Rosenheim. University Press of that discusses each bird's life New England, 2016. history, special characteristics An insider’s guide to both and habits, when and where it popular and remote sites in the can be found. 500 color photos. boroughs and on Long Island. 14687 500 pp. Flexi-binding $39.95 14656 313 pp. Paperback $24.95 New Jersey's Caring for Birds and Nature: 100 Years Len Soucy. Illustrations by of Seattle Audubon Michael McNelly. The Raptor Constance Sidles, Editor. Trust, 2016. Seattle Audubon, 2016. A guide to the natural history Interviews, historical and identification of sixteen photos, and moving species of hawks, , and stories about their history working to protect . With color photos and black & white birds and nature in Washington. Limited Edition; illustrations. every copy signed by the editor. 14732 62 pp. Paperback $18.95 14741 184 pp. Hardcover $45.00

BESTSELLER Birds of Montana Jeffrey S. Marks, Paul Hendricks, and Daniel Casey; Sponsored by Montana Audubon. Published by Buteo Books, 2016. A comprehensive reference to the status, distribution, relative abundance, ecology, and conservation of the 433 bird species that have been found in the state since Montana entered the Union in 1889. With color range maps and 73 original black & white line drawings of individual species by Shawneen E. Finnegan. BBMT 672 pp. Hardcover $75.00

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Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 1 Breeding Birds of Solano County The Second Nebraska Napa-Solano Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas Society, Second edition, 2016. Wayne J. Mollhoff. University of Describes current and historical Nebraska State Museum, 2016 distribution, conservation, A comprehensive description habitat and population trends of breeding records, with range and includes an introduction to the biogeography maps, for 225 species. Includes of Solano County, as well as maps for every a checklist of the breeding birds. breeding species. 14702 304 pp. Paperback $30.00 14724 224 pp. Hardcover $65.00 The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Multimedia Identification Guide to North Ohio Atlantic : and Paul G. Rodewald. Penn State Fulmarine Petrels University Press, 2016. Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher. Current distribution and status Scilly Pelagics, 2016. changes for over 200 species. Third in a series, with detailed Each account has color photos text, color photos and of species and/or habitat. Color illustrations, range maps, and maps show breeding, abundance, and two DVDs with over 120 comparison of changes since the first atlas. minutes of footage with 14666 578 pp. Hardcover $64.95 narration, this guide is the first to illustrate all recognizable stages of plumage maturation. The Birds of Hocking County, Ohio 14697 278 pp. Hardcover $64.95 John T. Watts, Paul E. Knoop, Jr., and Gary A. Coovert. Extinct Birds of Hawaii McDonald & Woodward, 2016 Michael Walther. Mutual An annotated Publishing, 2016. recorded in the county, one of Richly illustrated, including the most popular birding paintings by Julian P. Hume, destinations, with a section on enables us to appreciate the the best birding locations. avian life unique to Hawaii, the 14712 144 pp. Paperback $24.95 capital of the world. 14693 238 pp. Hardcover $21.95

Avian Spectrum: A Video Portfolio of North American Birds Bob Hamblin. Avian Spectrum, 2014. 12 DVDs cover 600+ species with live action video, range maps, songs and calls, and narration that describes field marks, behavior and habitat. 1: Waterfowl $24.95 2A: Game Birds - Wading Birds $24.95 8: Longspurs - Warblers $24.95 2B: Birds of Prey - Cranes $24.95 9: Seedeater - Bunting $24.95 3: Shorebirds $24.95 10: Tanagers - Old World Sparrows 4: - Swifts. 2 Disc Set $34.95 $24.95 5: - Parrots $24.95 11: Raptors $24.95 6: Tyrant Flycatchers - Corvids $24.95 12: Complete set. Collectors Edition 7: Larks - Phainopepla $24.95 $225.00

2 Order online at www.buteobooks.com Birds of the Pacific Northwest: A A Field Guide to Coastal Photographic Guide Fishes From Alaska to Tom Aversa, Richard Cannings California and Hal Opperman. University Val Kells et al. Johns Hopkins of Washington Press, 2016. University Press, 2016. Full-page accounts of This fully illustrated guide individual species include range captures the stunning diversity maps and over 900 of fish along the western photographs by the region's coastlines of the United States and Canada. top bird photographers. 14622 366 pp. Paperback $25.00 14680 458 pp. Paperback $28.95 Field Guide to Cacti & Other Succulents Birds of the Puget Sound Region: Coast of Arizona, Second edition to Cascades Peter Breslin. Tucson Cactus & Dennis Paulson, Bob Morse, Succulent Society, 2016. Tom Aversa, and Hal A comprehensive and detailed Opperman. R. W. Morse, 2016. guide to the identification, A pocket identification guide distribution and appreciation with color photos of over 200 of some of Arizona's botanical birds, with concise text and wonders, illustrated with color color-coded pages indexed for photos. quick reference. Updated edition. 14639ED2 302 pp. Paperback $25.95 14678 446 pp. Paperback $19.95 Peterson Field Guide to and New England Bird Lover's Amphibians of Eastern and Central North Garden: Guide to Trees & America. Fourth Edition Flowers that Attract Birds Robert Powell, Roger Conant, Randi Minetor. GPP, 2016. and Joseph Collins. Houghton Attract a wider variety of Mifflin Harcort, 2016. birds: advice on what foods, Color illustrations, drawings, , trees, water sources, and photos. Adds 122 newly and nesting materials will recognized species or newly attract particular species, with established non-native species color photos and concise, informative text. since the third edition. 14638 214 pp. Paperback $12.95 14667 494 pp. Paperback $21.00

Warblers in Your Pocket: North American Warbler A Guide to the Wood- Fold-out Guide Warblers of the Upper Scott Whittle and Tom Midwest Stephenson. Princeton, 2016. Dana Gardner. University of Laminated folding reference to Iowa Press, 2016. the 45 most commonly seen Laminated folding guide to 38 North American warblers. species with length, range, Photos include side-on, habitat and plumage variations. underside, and 45-degree views. 14599 $10.95 14679 $7.95

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 3 Fire Birds: Valuing Natural Wildfires and Basic Illustrated Burned Forests Tracks: Second Edition Sneed B. Collard, III. Bucking Roseann and Jonathan Horse Books, 2015. Hanson. Guides, 2016. By showing how dozens of How to identify tracks and species of birds make use of other animal signs, make plaster burned forests, this book casts and tracings, observation transforms the way we look at techniques, and more. natural wildfires.. 14637 101 pp. Paperback $12.95 14747 48 pp. Hardcover $17.00 Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Birds On Bird Hill Julie Beer. National Jane Yolen and Bob Geographic, 2016. Marstall. Cornell Lab A hands-on, fun, fact-filled Publishing Group, 2016. guide to spotting, hearing, and A beautiful picture book discovering birds. This guide with an enchanting story, will make kids Stop! Look! and created especially for the Listen! to find feathered friends Cornell Lab. right in their own backyards. 14649 32 pp. Hardcover $15.95 14579 160 pp. Paperback $12.99

America's Favorite Birds: Bird Brainiacs: Activity 40 Beautiful Birds to Color Journal and Log Book for Miyoko Chu and Brenda Young Birders Lyons. Cornell Lab, 2016. Stacy Torino and Ken Keffer. Coloring enthusiasts and bird Cornell Lab, 2016. lovers unite with this beautiful and intricately An interactive high-engagement designed coloring book for all ages. journal for kids 8 - 13 who love 14650 88 pp. Paperback $15.95 birds and nature. 14651 98 pp. Spiralbound $14.95 Sibley Birder's Life List and Field Diary David Allen Sibley. Clarkson The Sibley Birds Coloring Field Journal Potter, due March 2017. Cecila Lehar and David A write-in field companion with A Sibley. Knopf, 2016. entries for the 923 species A deluxe adult coloring found in the U.S. and Canada, book with 75 images of with space for recording where birds by Lehar, adapted and when a bird was seen and from Sibley’s paintings. for notes or memories about the Heavy paper provides an optimal coloring sighting. At the back is a complete checklist of surface. Sibley's full-color paintings and 12 all the birds for building a life list. anatomical drawings are featured as a reference. 14721 Paperback $19.95 14719 96 pp. Hardcover $19.95

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern & Western North America, Second editions David Sibley. Random House, 2016. Flexi-bindings. Sibley Birds East, Second Sibley Birds West, Second edition edition SIBE2 438 pp. $19.95 SIBW2 477 pp. $19.95

4 Order online at www.buteobooks.com American Birding Association Field Guides

Field Guide to Birds of Field Guide to Birds of Minnesota Arizona Laura Erickson. Photography Rick Wright. Scott & Nix, 2016 by Brian E. Small. Scott & A photographic field guide Nix, 2016. identifying 323 species of Color photos of 300 species. birds, in a handy, portable size. ABAFGMN 330 pp. Flexi $24.95 ABAFGAZ 358 pp. Flexi $24.95 Previously published in this series: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, & Texas. Due in 2017: Illinois

The Backyard Birdsong Guides Donald Kroodsma. Cornell Lab, 2016. Books with built-in touch-button electronic audio player with vocalizations of 75 species, each corresponding to illustrated species accounts. Western North America Audio Field Guide 14654 191 pp Hardcover $34.95 Eastern & Central North America Audio Field Guide 14655 192 pp Hardcover $34.95

Identifying Birds of Prey: Attracting Birds in the Quick Reference Guide for Texas Hill Country: A Guide Eastern North America to Land Stewardship Laura Erickson. Stackpole, 2016 W. Rufus Stephens and Jan Pocket guide to hawks, eagles, Wrede. Texas A&M, 2017. falcons, , and kites in How to improve habitat for flight with photos, outlines, birds on both small and large range maps and comparisons. properties throughout the Hill Country. 14598 64 pp. Paperback $9.95 14688 64 pp. Paperback $9.95

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Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 2: Passerines Josep del Hoyo and Nigel J. Collar, Chief Authors. Lynx Edicions in association with Birdlife International, 2017. A complete checklist following the most up-to-date taxonomy in the HBW format. Every species illustrated in color using the original artwork from the HBW series, as well as hundreds of new illustrations, all in two volumes. Includes taxonomic notes, distribution, range maps, and subspecies. This volume covers the passerines. HBWC1 Non-Passerines 1013 pp. Hardcover $199.00 HBWC2 Passerines 1013 pp. Hardcover $245.00

A Field Guide to the Guide: Identifying the Many Varieties of Roger Tory Peterson's Guide to Birds (and What They’re Worth) Scott Bastian, published by the author, 2016. Identifying the various editions and printings of Peterson's seminal field guide has always been a challenge and following painstaking research, Scott Bastian describes each and every point needed to correctly identify each. 14705 78 pp. Spiralbound $19.95

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The Neotropics Birds of Bolivia: A Field Guide Sebastian K. Herzog, et al. Birds of Western Ecuador: A Armonia: Conservacion de Aves en Bolivia, 2016. Photographic Guide 230 color plates with field Nick Athanas and Paul J. Greenfield. Princeton, 2016. identification text and range A photographic field guide with maps with locality records on nearly 1,500 color photos of facing pages. Introductory 946 species. Species accounts, chapters include information photos, and color distribution on Bolivian birds and their conservation as well maps appear side by side. as hints on where to watch and how to identify 14585 448 pp. Paperback $45.00 birds in Bolivia. Price to be announced. 14746 491 pp. Paperback TBD Wildlife of the Galapagos, Second edition Julian Fitter, Daniel Fitter and Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname David Hosking. Princeton, 2016 Arie L. Spaans, Otte H. Ottema Expanded to 400 commonly and Jan Hein J.M. Ribot. Brill, seen birds, reptiles, mammals, 2015. The first true field guide to invertebrates, plants, and other Suriname, with 107 color plates coastal and marine life. Over by Ber van Perlo, species 650 color photos, maps, and accounts, data on the natural drawings, Spanish names, and history of the country and details on visitor sites. hotspots for bird watching. 14591 285 pp. Paperback $19.95 14608 634 pp. Paperback $55.00 Photo Guide to Birds of Guanica Biosphere Reserve, Costa Rica Puerto Rico Bird Checklist Richard Garrigues. Cornell University Press, 2015. Wayne J. Arendt, John Faaborg, Treats 365 commonly seen Miguel Canals, and Jerry Bauer. Mizzou Publishing, 2016. species in color photos, with An annotated list with colored measurements, field marks, columns with status, abundance, habitat and behavior, voice, and habitat. Includes a fold-out status and distribution, and range maps. color map of the Reserve. Very 14604 256 pp. Paperback $24.95 useful for the entirety of Puerto Rico. The New Neotropical Companion 14713 48 pp. Spiralbound $8.99 Kricher, John. Princeton, due Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern March 2017. A completely revised and Central America expanded edition of a book that Jesse Fagan and Oliver Komar. Houghton Mifflin has helped thousands of people Harcourt, 2016. understand the complex A compact field guide covering ecology and natural history of approximately 820 species of the American tropics. birds found in Belize, 14727 448 pp. Paperback $35.00 Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. 14668 438 pp. Paperback $25.00

6 Order online at www.buteobooks.com Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Birds of , North and the Brazil: The Atlantic Forest of Southeast Middle East: An Annotated Brazil, including Sao Paulo Checklist and Rio de Janeiro Dominic Mitchell. Lynx Robert Ridgely, John Gwynne, Edicions, due February 2017. Guy Tudor, and Martha Argel. An up-to-date list of almost Cornell University Press, 2016. 1,150 species, with subspecies, Cover the endemic richness of scientific and English names, the Atlantic Forest of southeast taxonomic notes, distribution Brazil. The second volume in a and occurrence. planned five-volume series to 14701 200 pp. Hardcover $32.50 cover the entire country. 14635 415 pp. Paperback $35.00 Identification Guide to European Non- Passerines: A BTO Field Guide [Second Edition] Britain & Europe Kevin Baker. British Trust for Ornithology, 2016. Britain's Birds: An Identification Guide to The primary purpose of this the Birds of Britain and Ireland work is to aid banders handling Rob Hume, et al. Princeton birds to identify the species and University Press, 2016. to determine their age and sex. A large and comprehensive Illustrations of 155 species in color. photographic field guide with 14717 463 pp. Paperback $25.00 multiple photos per species, range maps, status, and more. Exceptional production, with Africa well-chosen and well-edited photographs. Birds of Morocco 14587 560 pp. Flexi $29.95 Ignacio Yufera. Editorial Planeta, 2015. RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds, A photographic showcase Second edition of 84 of the country’s Peter Holden. Bloomsbury, 2016 representative species, A field guide to over 250 following six birding routes, with brief text about species, featuring one species the birds, landscape and cultural attractions. per page, with color 14626 256 pp. Hardcover $55.00 illustrations, comprehensive accounts including Gaelic Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, names, and range maps. Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, 14612 256 pp. Paperback $25.99 & Socotra, Revised edition Nigel Redman, Terry Stevenson Field Guide to the Birds of and John Fanshawe. Princeton, 2016. Britain and Ireland Illustrated field guide to more Mark Golley. Bloomsbury, 2016 than 1,000 species of resident, A compact illustrated guide to migrant, and vagrant birds 285 species. Illustrated with found in northeast Africa. more than 1,000 color 13026-E2 512 pp. Paperback $45.00 illustrations by David Daly. 14631 208 pp. Paperback $22.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 7 Africa continued Australia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia of Kruger National Park Keith Barnes. Princeton University Press, 2016. Birds of the Darwin Region A compact field guide with over Niven McCrie and Richard 200 color photos of 57 Noske. CSIRO, 2015. A comprehensive review of the mammals, 17 reptiles, and 8 distribution, status, and natural frogs. Information about history of the birds of this identification, habitat, behavior, northwestern Australian city. biology, and conservation. Includes original photographs 14582 176 pp. Paperback $27.95 of almost all regularly occurring species. Wildlife of Madagascar 14578 454 pp. Paperback $79.95 Ken Behrens and Keith Barnes. Princeton, November 2016. Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, A comprehensive field guide to Taxonomy, & Systematics mammals, birds, reptiles, Bruce M. Beehler and Thane amphibians, and butterflies that K. Pratt. Princeton University Press, 2016. a visitor is likely to see. This comprehensive annotated 14589 344 pp. Paperback $27.95 checklist covers distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of East African Wildlife, the birds of New Guinea, and Second Edition complements the new edition of the field guide Phillip Briggs. Bradt Publications, 2016. by the same authors. Practical tips on game drives 14584 668 pp. Hardcover $75.00 and safaris, photography and wildlife, and details on Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: individual species and habitats. Greater Sundas and Wallacea James Eaton, Bas van Balen, 14600 282 pp. Paperback $28.99 Nick Brickle and Frank Rheindt. Lynx Edicions, 2016. The Antelope of Africa A field guide to fill a long-felt William Frost. Edited by Trevor void in coverage. 1,417 species, Carnaby. Jacana Media, 2014. A field guide with color photos, 601 endemics and 18 covering conservation status, undescribed species. 2,424 threats and risks, ranges, illustrations and range maps. habitats, habits, and the latest 14685 496 pp. Hardcover $75.00 taxonomic classifications. 14620 358 pp. Paperback $35.95

Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents I Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier. Lynx Edicions, September 2016. The order Rodentia make up almost half of all species of mammals. Split over two volumes, Volume 6 includes all of the families of rodents other than Cricetidae and Muridae, plus the order Lagomorpha, which includes rabbits and pikas. Volume 7, Rodents Part 2, will be published in 2017. Sign up for the pre-publication discount on our website or by contacting us. HMW6 987 pp. Hardcover $185.00

8 Order online at www.buteobooks.com A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea, Wildlife of Southeast Asia Second Edition Susan Myers. Princeton Woo-Shin Lee. LG Evergreen University Press, 2016. Foundation, 2015. A concise photographic guide A compact guide to every to the most common species species. 120 color plates, range of mammals, birds, reptiles, maps, a checklist, 50 more amphibians, and of species than the first edition, Burma, Thailand, Laos, new subspecies, with updated Cambodia, Vietnam, West taxonomy and common names. Malaysia, and Singapore. 14665 395 pp. Paperback $32.50 14590 255 pp. Paperback $19.95

Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Tanya Chan-ard, et al. Oxford Brunei and Kalimantan University Press, 2015. Quentin and Karen Phillips. A complete guide to the Princeton University Press, 2016 country's reptilian life, with an More than a field guide, account of every species, profusely illustrated with color complete with nomenclature, paintings and photos. Facing- color illustrations, and range page species accounts describe maps of known locations. taxonomy, size, distribution, habits, and status 14640 314 pp. Paperback $39.95 of 277 species of land and marine mammals. 14658 400 pp. Paperback $35.00 Birds of Nepal, Revised Edition. Helm Field Guides The Mammals of Luzon Island: Richard & Carol Inskipp, Tim Biogeography and Natural History of a Inskipp, & Hem Sagar Baral. Philippine Fauna Christopher Helm, 2016. Lawrence R. Heaney, et al. This edition covers all 800 Johns Hopkins University species found in this Press, 2016. mountainous kingdom, with Both a field guide and a study new plates, re-written text, and range maps for of tropical fauna, featuring 120 the first time. Species accounts and maps are illustrated species profiles. opposite the plates for easy reference. 14623 287 pp. Hardcover $75.00 14670 368 pp. Paperback $50.00

A Naturalist’s Guide to . . . Photographic guides to 280 commonly seen species, with an introduction to the area and main sites for viewing, and a checklist. A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Singapore, Fully Revised 2nd Edition Yong Ding Li, Lim Kim Chuah and Lee Tiah Khee. John Beaufoy, 2016. 14159 176 pp. Paperback $17.95 A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of China: Southeast China, including Shanghai Liu Yang, Yu Yat Tung, and Yong Ding Li. John Beaufoy, 2014. 14646 176 pp. Paperback $17.95 A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Philippines Maia Tanedo, Robert Hutchinson, & Adrian & Trinket Constantino. 2015. 14647 176 pp. Paperback $17.95

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 9 Essays and Biographies

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Individual Lives Finding Myself in One Very Bernd Heinrich. Houghton Big Year Mifflin, 2016. Neil Hayward. Bloomsbury The acclaimed scientist/writer's Publishing, 2016. captivating encounters with An unplanned and accidental individual wild birds, yielding Big Year led to a Big Year record 'marvelous, mind-altering' that shocked the birding world insights and discoveries. (and Hayward himself). 14574 224 pp. Hardcover $28.00 14676 400 pp. Hardcover $28.00

Bird Droppings: Writings About Watching Turaco Country: Reminiscences of East Birds & Bird Watchers African Birding Pete Dunne. Stackpole Books, Dale A. Zimmerman. Sky 2016. Island Press, 2015. 33 funny, poignant, whimsical, This memoir details 50 years and informative tales about of ornithological investigations. birders and birding in his first A field ornithologist's collection of birding essays in quintessentially African more than ten years. experience, set against the political backdrop of 14597 111 pp. Paperback $16.95 the shift from colonial to African rule. 14616 783 pp. Hardcover $82.50 Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific Birders of Africa: History of a Network Donald Kroodsma. Princeton Nancy J. Jacobs. Yale University Press, 2016. University Press, 2016. Join birdsong expert Donald Jacobs reconstructs the Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten- collaborations between well- state bicycle journey, lingering known ornithologists and the and listening to our continent largely forgotten guides, sing as no one has before. QR hunters, and taxidermists who codes lead the mobile device- worked with them. equipped reader to 381 recordings. 14659 352 pp. Hardcover $85.00 14636 311 pp. Hardcover $29.95 Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of The Genius of Birds Mount Auburn Cemetery Jennifer Ackerman. Random John Harrison and Kim Nagy House, 2016. Editors. Ziggy Press, Ackerman not only tells the 2015. story of the recently uncovered A series of essays on birds and genius of birds but also delves wildlife encountered at this into the latest findings about the famous birding spot in bird brain itself that are Cambridge, Massachusetts, the revolutionizing our view of oldest landscaped cemetery in what it means to be intelligent. the United States. 14594 340 pp. Hardcover $28.00 14618 298 pp. Paperback $23.95

10 Order online at www.buteobooks.com The Fascination of Birds The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: From the to the Designs, Patterns and Details Yellowthroat Deborah Samuel. Prestel, William Young. Dover, 2014. 2016. 99 essays combine the author's Marvel at the textures and field experience and reflections colors of birds in stunning drawn from biology, ecology, detail in photographs meant to literature, music, history, inspire and teach. linguistics, politics, sports, and entertainment. 14657 287 pp. Hardcover $45.00 14624 338 pp. Hardcover $24.95 Birds are People, Too: Returning North with the Spring: From the Humor in the Avian World Everglades to Maine in the Kate Davis. Mountain Press, footsteps of Edwin Way 2016. Teale Davis lets her imagination fly John R. Harris. University with humorous takes on the Press of Florida, 2016. avian world. You’ll laugh when reading the Retracing Edwin Way Teale's humorous captions to the color photos of birds. 17,000-Mile Journey in 1947, 14692 124 pp. Paperback $18.00 Harris reveals a vastly changed natural world. The Joy of Birdwatching: 14643 218 pp. Hardcover $24.95 For Those Who Love Seeing Birds in the Wild The Home Place: Memoirs Alan Davies and Ruth Miller. of a Colored Man's Love Summersdale Publishers, 2015 Affair with Nature A pocket-sized miscellany, J. Drew Lanham. Milkweed packed with fascinating facts, Press, 2016. hints, and stories and quotes As a young man Lanham fell in from the world of birds. love with the natural world 14627 157 pp. Hardcover $15.95 around him, and began to ask what it means to be the rare bird, a black man in The Most Perfect Thing: a profoundly white field. Inside [and Outside] a 14726 216 pp. Hardcover $24.00 Bird's Tim Birkhead. Bloomsbury, Flock Together: A Love 2016. Affair with Extinct Birds How are made, fertilized, B.J. Hollars. University of developed, and hatched, Nebraska Press, 2016. enlivened by the stories of A moving elegy to birds we've naturalists and scientists. lost, Hollars's exploration of 14610 288 pp. Hardcover $27.00 what we can learn from extinct species will resonate in the Birds in Trouble minds of readers long beyond Lynn E. Barber. Texas A & M the final page. Armed with binoculars, a field University Press, 2016. Profiles 42 species in trouble guide, and knowledgeable friends, he begins his in the United States, discussing transition from budding birder to the likely reasons why, and environmentally conscious citizen. what we can do to improve their 14672 195 pp. Hardcover $24.95 situations. 14634 200 pp. Flexi-binding $29.95

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 11 Audubon: America's Greatest Naturalist Witmer Stone: The Fascination of Nature and His Voyage of Discovery to Labrador Scott McConnell. Published by Peter Logan. Ashbryn Press, the author, 2014. 2016. From Stone's boyhood interest A definitive scholarly account in natural history, which led to of Audubon's 1833 expedition, his work at the Academy of and a fascinating biography, Natural Sciences, with the highlighting his complex American Ornithologists' personality and tensions in his Union, and in conservation, to closest relationships. the development of his classic Pine Barrens and 14648 816 pp. Hardcover $40.00 Cape May books. 14625 411 pp. Paperback $25.00 Charles Darwin's Life With Birds: His Complete On the Wing: Insects, , Birds, Ornithology and the Evolution of Animal Flight Clifford B. Frith. Oxford, David E. Alexander. Oxford 2016. University Press, 2015. A comprehensive treatment of Anomalies of the flying world: Darwin's work as an hovering hummingbirds, ornithologist, a side of him that unexpected gliders, and the has not often been covered. flyers that went extinct and 14698 499 pp. Hardcover $69.95 wing-origin theory: whether birds entered the skies from the Spare the Birds! George trees down or from the ground up. Bird Grinnell and the First 14549 210 pp. Hardcover $29.95 Audubon Society Carolyn Merchant. Yale Nests, Eggs, and Incubation: New ideas University Press, 2016. about Avian Reproduction An engaging history of the D. Charles Deeming and S. founding of one of the world's James Reynolds [Editors]. most popular environmental Oxford University Press, 2016. organizations. A comprehensive overview of 14709 328 pp. Hardcover $45.00 the fascinating and diverse field of avian incubation in four The American Ornithologists' Union: The broad areas: the nest, the egg, incubation, and First Century, 1883-1983 the study of avian reproduction. Kier B. Sterling and Marianne 14592 296 pp. Hardcover $110.00 Ainley. Edited by William Davis, Jr. and Byron K. Butler. Nuttall 14592P 296 pp. Paperback $59.95 Ornithological Club, 2016 Snowbird: Integrative Biology and The AOU, dedicated to the Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco study of birds, was the first Ellen D. Ketterson and national taxon-oriented Jonathan W. Atwell. University scientific society in the United of Chicago Press, 2016. States. Illustrated with black & white photos of The contributors’ common goal: many of the Union’s key figures. elucidating the organismal and NOCM20 405 pp. Hardcover $35.00 evolutionary processes by which animals adapt and Visit buteobooks.com to sign up diversify in response to for our monthly e-newsletter environmental change. 14662 389 pp. Hardcover $60.00

12 Order online at www.buteobooks.com Hamerstrom Stories: Recollections of Scarlet Experiment: Birds the Life of Hammy and and in America Fran Hamerstrom Jeff Karnicky. University of Elva Hamerstrom Paulson. R. Nebraska Press, 2016. Schneider Publishers, 2013. Emily Dickinson’s poem 'Split Stories of the appropriately the Lark' refers to the 'scarlet wild lives of the Hamerstroms, experiment' by which scientists which included work that saved destroy a bird in order to learn the Greater Prairie Chicken in more about it. An examination of the study and Wisconsin from going the way of the , management of bird life in America from the fill every corner of this marvelous book. 19th century to today. RF1624 336 pp. Paperback $29.95 14673 221 pp. Hardcover $45.00

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Bovids of the World: Antelopes, Gazelles, Butterflies: A Complete Guide to Their Cattle, Goats, Sheep and Biology and Behavior Relatives Dick Vane-Wright. Cornell Jose R. Castello. Princeton University Press, 2015. University Press, 2016. An introduction to the biology, A field guide to all 279 bovid natural history, and species with more than 300 classification of this major illustrated color plates and group. Using examples from comprehensive species around the world and eye-catching photographs accounts and range maps. 14605 128 pp. Paperback $19.95 14586 664 pp. Paperback $35.00 Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Gliding Mammals of the World Butterflies of Passage Stephen Jackson and Peter Robert Michael Pyle. Yale Shouten, illustrator. CSIRO, University Press, 2014. 2012. Part road trip, part outdoor A guide to the biology and adventure, and part natural natural history of these history study, chronicling intriguing mammals. Each Pyle's 9,000-mile journey to species is accompanied by a discover the secrets of the full-page color painting. Range monarchs' annual migration. maps of all species and subspecies. 14707 319 pp. Paperback $20.00 14642 215 pp. Hardcover $59.95 The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures The Long, Long Life of with the World’s Most Trees Misunderstood Mammals Fiona Stafford. Yale University Merlin Tuttle. Houghton Press, 2016. Mifflin, 2015. A lyrical tribute to the diversity A lifetime of adventures with of noteworthy and important bats around the world reveals trees of the British Isles, their why these special and physical beauty, their special imperiled creatures should be characteristics and uses, and protected rather than feared. their ever-evolving meanings. 14611 271 pp. Hardcover $26.00 14708 287 pp. Hardcover $30.00 Bats of Britain and Europe National Parks of Costa Rica Christian Dietz and Andreas Gregory Basco and Robin Kiefer. Bloomsbury, 2016. Kazmier. Cornell, 2015. A definitive guide with in- This book features stunning depth species accounts with photographs which provide an distribution maps, drawings, unparalleled glimpse into the and almost seven hundred color treasures of Costa Rica's parks. photographs. 14606 298 pp. Hardcover $50.00 14632 398 pp. Paperback $50.00

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Ralph Steadman's Nextinction Bird Anatomy for Artists Ceri Levi. Illustrated by Ralph Natalia Balo, 2013. Steadman. Bloomsbury, 2015. The book is full of illustrations 192 critically endangered birds, that are clear and easy to along with a number of classic understand, including black and Steadman creations such as the white working drawings, Unsociable Lapwing, are examples of the artist's field depicted in Ralph Steadman’s studies and color illustrations. Every part of one-of-a-kind illustrations. the bird's body is outlined in detail with 14617 224 pp. Hardcover $50.00 informative text and helpful drawing This oversize book is the follow-up to the instructions. Published in Australia, but useful award-winning Extinct Boids, for birds (and artists) worldwide. also available (Item #13889). 14684 128 pp. Hardcover $55.00

The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds Fine Lines: Vladimir John Muir Laws. Heyday, Nabokov's Scientific Art 2012. Stephen H. Blackwell and Kurt This how-to guide will perfect Johnson, Editors. Yale, 2016. the technique of serious artists The first full appraisal of and provide guidance for those Nabokov’s contributions as a who insist they can’t draw. scientist, long neglected in favor Leading the mind and hand of his literary achievements. through a series of detailed exercises. 14706 318 pp. Hardcover $50.00 14629 217 pp. Paperback $24.95 Baby Birds: An Artist The Laws Guide to Nature Looks into the Nest Drawing and Journaling Julie Zickefoose. Houghton John Muir Laws. Heyday, 2016 Mifflin, 2016. A how-to guide for becoming a Watercolor paintings better artist and a more attentive accompanied by insightful naturalist. Straightforward text narrative based on colorful complemented by step-by- observation and study of 17 species of North step illustrations and dozens of exercises. American songbird nestlings. 14644 303 pp. Paperback $35.00 14576 352 pp. Hardcover $28.00

18 Order online at www.buteobooks.com RARE - OUT OF PRINT - USED The following represents a selection of out-of-print and used titles in our inventory, listed by author. Artists are noted when relevant. Books are in very good condition or better unless noted otherwise. Paper covers (wrappers) and defects are mentioned where appropriate and dust jackets when present. Most books are one-of-a-kind; reserving by telephone is recommended. Images of all items can be found on our website. If you don’t find the book for which you are looking, give us a call.

ALDEN, Peter. Finding the Birds in Western Mexico: A Guide to the States of Sonora, Sinaloa, & Nayarit. Arizona, 1969. 138 pp. Color plates by John O’Neill. Maps. Paperback. #R1112226 - $15.00 ALEXANDER, Boyd. An Ornithological Expedition to the Cape Verde Islands. In 'The Ibis: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology,' January 1898, pp. 74-118. Includes hand- colored lithograph by J.G. Keulemans of Spizocorys razae. This is the complete number with additional articles and two additional color plates by Keulemans: Ptilotis gracilis (Graceful Honey-eater) and Pipra opalizans (Opal-crowned Manakin). Original wrappers, spine worn and chipped. #IbisJan1898 - $45.00 ALI, Salim & S. Dillon RIPLEY. Handbook of the Birds of and Pakistan: Together with Those of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon. OUP, 1968-1974. Volumes 1-10 of the first edition with 113 colored plates by a number of artists. Dust jackets have chips and tears. #B410 - $120.00 ALPHERAKY, S. The Geese of Europe and Asia. London: Rowland Ward, Ltd. 1905. Being the Description of Most of the Old World Species. Original green cloth. Twenty- four colored plates by F.W. Frohawk and a frontis by P.P. Sushkin. Laid-in original copies of correspondence between previous owner and bookseller Rudolph Wm. Sabbot Books regarding purchase of this copy in 1970. 198 pp. #B409 - $600.00 AUSTING, G. Ronald and John B. HOLT, Jr. The World of the Great Horned Owl. J.B. Lippincott Company. 1966. First edition in dust jacket. 158 pp. #R07031305 - $25.00 BAILEY, Alfred M. Birds of Arctic Alaska. Colorado Museum of Natural History: Popular Series No. 8, 1948. B&W photographs. 317 pp. #R31005 - $50.00 BAILEY, Florence Merriam. Birds of New Mexico. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. 1928. Tissue protected color plates by Allan BROOKS. Range maps. 'A comprehensive and useful book, for which Mrs. Bailey received the Brewster Award of the American Ornithologists' Union. It is one of the more sumptuous of American state ornithologies.' Mengel. 807 pp. #B368 - $145.00 BAIRD, Spencer F., T.M. BREWER, and R. RIDGWAY. A History of North American Birds - Land Birds. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1905. Third Edition. Three volumes with 64 color plates of birds’ heads and 593 drawings. TEG. First published in 1874, the present edition contains hand finished color frontispieces by Robert RIDGWAY in each volume. Shelf wear. Common names have been nicely written in ink below the images on the color plates. 1746 pp. #13759 - $300.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 19 BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton. U.S. Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practical and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, Vol. IX, Part II, 1858. BIRDS by Spencer F. Baird. Leather spine with label over well-worn marbled boards. Front board is detached. The work consists of a critical, descriptive account of all the birds of North America, north of Mexico, and is not restricted to the species collected by the Pacific Railroad Surveys. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No.91. 1005 pp. #B426 - $75.00 BAKER, E. C. Stuart. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, 1922-1928, Second Edition. Eight Volume Set. Worn hardcovers in burgundy cloth. Volume I, 470 pp.; Volume II (ex-library), 561 pp.; Volume III (ex-library), 489 pp.; Volume IV, 471 pp.; Volume V, 469 pp.; Volume VI, 499 pp. (pages 79-80 removed); Volume VII, 484 pp.; Volume VIII, 801 pp. Color plates and illustrations throughout. #B425- $240.00 BAKER, E.C. Stuart. The Indian and Their Allies. Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. Bound in half green morocco, TEG. Thirty color plates by H. Grönvold, G.E. Lodge, and J.G. Keulemans. Updated book edition based on a series of articles which originally appeared in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. This edition is limited to 1200 copies. 292 pp. #B412 - $200.00 BARTSCH, Paul, Harald Alfred REHDER, and Beulah E. SHIELDS. A Bibliography and Short Biographical Sketch of William Healey Dall. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 104, Number 15, 96 pp, 1946. Original wrappers. #B485 - $20.00 BAXTER, Evelyn V.; Lenora Jeffrey RINTOUL. The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration. Two Volumes. Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Volume One, pp. 1- 352. Volume Two, pp. 357-763. Dust jackets chipped. Color frontis plates, black and white photographs. Color fold-out map. #B360 - $200.00 BEEBE, C. William. Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, 1905. Covers worn and somewhat soiled. A delightful recount of the author and his wife's adventures in Mexico. 374 pp. #R1407097 - $95.00 BIGLAND, John. Bigland's History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects. Philadelphia: John Grigg: 1831. Half leather over boards. Binding worn, text foxed. Eleven hand-colored lithographic plates, nine of birds including frontis of Am. Gros and Baltimore Oreole or Hanging Bird. 179 pp. #BR484 - $75.00 BREWSTER, William. Birds of the Cape Region of Lower California. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. XLI. No. 1, 1902. Original wrappers. One fold-out map. 241 pp. Baja California, Mexico. #B386 - $45.00 BROOKS, T.M., N.J. COLLAR, R.E. GREEN, S.J. MARSDEN and D.J. PAIN, Editors. The Science of Bird Conservation: A Special Issue in Memory of Colin Bibby. Bird Conservation International, Vol 18, Supplement 1, 2008. 262 pp. Paper.#B134 - $25.00 BRYANT, Harold C. Habits and Food of the Roadrunner in California. UC Publications in Zoology, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 21-58, 1916. B&W plates. Original wrappers.#B450 - $10.00

20 Order online at www.buteobooks.com BUXTON, John. The Redstart. New Naturalist Monographs Number 2, 1950. 180 pp. First edition. Good hardcover in price-clipped dust jacket. Book is cocked, dust jacket and last few pages oil stained. 180 pp. #R30196 - $45.00 BYERS, Clive, Jon CURSON, and Urban OLSSON. Sparrows and Buntings: A Guide to the Sparrows and Buntings of North America and the World. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Dust jacket. 39 color plates. A comprehensive guide (in the Helm series) to 110 species. 334 pp. #R30022 - $15.00 CATESBY, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1974. Catalogue volume, limited to 1700 copies, with black & white reproductions of Catesby's plates from a copy of the Third Edition (1771). Colored maps on endpapers, bound in green linen. Folio (20.5 in x 14.5 in) Containing 220 figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants by the late Mark Catesby, F.R.S. Introduction by George Frick and notes by Joseph Ewan. Separate color plate of 'Large White Bill'd ' (Ivory-billed Woodpecker) laid in. #AH1609 - $275.00 CHAPMAN, Frank M. The Birds of the Vicinity of New York City: A Guide to the Local Collection in the Department of Ornithology. Reprinted from American Museum Journal Vol. VI., Nos. 2 and 3, 1906. Worn wrappers. 96 pp. #B447 - $20.00 CHASEN, Fredrick Nutter. A Handlist of Malaysian Birds. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, Straits Settlements, No. 11, December, 1935. Original red wrappers, front wrapper detached. Folding map. A Systematic List of the Birds of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java, Including the Adjacent Small Islands. 389 pp. #B407 - $45.00 CLARKE, William . Studies in . Two hardcover volumes. Gurney and Jackson. 1912. Volume I, 323 pp.; Volume II, 346 pp. Maps, weather charts, and other illustrations. Black and white photographs. #BR479 - $39.00 CURSON, Jon. Warblers of the Americas: An Identification Guide. Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Dust jacket. 36 color plates illustrate all 116 species. The first comprehensive guide to all warblers found in the Americas. 252 pp. #11168 - $10.00 DELACOUR, J. and P. JABOUILLE. Les Oiseaux de l'Indochine Française. Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale. 1931. Tome I-IV. Four volumes in original wrappers. Spines darkened, some chipping to wrappers. Text block not tight in Volume I. Pages unopened, can be cut on request. The classic work on the avifauna of French Indochina (present day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). Sixty-seven plates, sixty-six in color, after H. Grönvold. Some plates bound out of order. Maps. 'An important faunal work on the birds of a large and hitherto obscure area, the ornithology of which is still comparatively little known.' Mengel. #B376 - $700.00 ERICKSON, Mary M. Territory, Annual Cycle, and Numbers in Population of Wren-tits (Chamea fasciata). University of California Publications in Zoology: Volume 42, No. 5, pp. 247-334, 1938. B&W photographs. Original wrappers. 87 pp. #Z04060203 - $10.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 21 ERSKINE, Anthony J. Buffleheads. Canadian Wildlife Service, 1971. B&W photos, illustrations, maps and tables. Somewhat worn hardcover. 240 pp. #R9121004 - $20.00 FAANES, Craig A. Birds of the St. Croix River Valley: Minnesota and Wisconsin. US Fish & Wildlife Service, 1981. North American Fauna No. 73. Paperback. 196 pp. #Z06050410-2 - $10.00 FINLAYSON, Clive. Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar. T&AD Poyser. 1992. Dust jacket. Clive Finlayson, a native of the Rock, presents a fascinating account of the region and its resident and transitory bird life. Drawings by Ian WILLIS. 534 pp. #13769 - $45.00 FISHER, James. Bird Recognition. Books. Three volume set. Volume One: Sea- birds and . Volume 2: Birds of Prey and Water-Fowl. Volume 3: Rails, Game-birds and Larger Perching and Singing Birds. Maps, charts plus black and white photographs. Paperbacks. #B354 - $18.00 FRIEDMANN, Herbert and Foster D. SMITH, Jr. A Contribution to the Ornithology of Northeastern Venezuela. Smithsonian Institution. 1950. From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 100, pp. 411-538, 1950. Together with A Further Contribution to the Ornithology of Northeastern Venezuela, Volume 104, pp. 463-524, 1955. Includes a complete list of the avifauna recorded from the region. Original wrappers and self-wrappers. #R10010505 - $10.00 FUERTES, Louis Agassiz and Wilfred Hudson OSGOOD. Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. Sixteen color plates printed on heavy paper are representative of the last work produced by Fuertes. Concurrent day-to- day diaries of Fuertes and Osgood recording their experiences on the Field Museum Expedition to Ethiopia in 1926. 249 pp. #R30057 - $60.00 FURNESS, Robert W. The . T. & A. D. Poyser. 1987. Maps, diagrams, photographs, and tables. Dust jacket. 363 pp. #R4070107 - $45.00 GOODWIN, Derek. Pigeons and Doves of the World. Cornell University Press, 1977. American edition of the Second Edition (1970) published by the British Museum (Natural History). Illustrations by Robert Gillmor. Dust jacket. 446 pp. #B490 - $15.00 GOSSE, Philip Henry. A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1851. Original cloth, rebacked in good condition. With 3 plates of tinted views and 5 of hand-colored fauna. Formerly in the Library of the Natural History Society of Maryland. 508 pp. #B252 - $350.00 GRAVE, B.H. and Ernest P. WALKER. The Birds of Wyoming: With an Explanation of Recent Changes in Their Distribution, Economic Aspects Also Considered. University of Wyoming, 1913. Original brown wrappers. 137 pp. #B385 - $40.00 GREENBERG, Russell. The Winter Exploitation Systems of Bay-breasted and Chestnut- sided Warblers in Panama. Berkeley: UC Publications in Zoology, Volume 116, 1984. Paper. 107 pp. #13772 - $20.00

22 Order online at www.buteobooks.com GROSS, Alfred O. The Heath Hen. Boston: Memoris of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volume 6, Number 4, pp. 489- 588, 1928. B&W plates 42-50. Color frontis by Louis Agassiz FUERTES. Hinges tender. Corners worn. $C106 - $250.00 HACHISUKA, Marquess. Contributions on the Birds of Hainan. The Ornithological Society of , 1939. Bound in red cloth, original card covers bound in. Introduction in English and Japanese. Annotated species list in English. Inscribed by the author to T.T. Momiyama on title page. Hainan, the southernmost island of China, was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Navy in 1939. Hachisuka's introduction describes the geography and climatic conditions and includes a history of ornithological exploration of the island. A rare association copy. 123 pp. #B404 - $60.00 HARRISON, James M. The Birds of Kent. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1953. Two volume set. Volume one, 510 pp., and Volume two, 312 pp. With illustrations in color by the author. A detailed treatment of the birds of an English county. Bumped corners. 822 pp. #R30080 - $65.00 HERRICK, Francis Hobart. The American Eagle: A Study in Natural and Civil History. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1934. B&W photos. Dust jacket missing a few chunks. 267 pp. #Z10020403 - $30.00 HOWARD, H. Eliot. The British Warblers: A History with Problems of Their Lives. London: R.H. Porter, 1907-1914. Two volumes. Worn half leather. Shelf wear, slight damage to covers. Volume I: 17 color plates and 30 photogravures; Volume II: 18 color plates and 21 photogravures. A detailed study of the life histories of British Warblers, with a philosophical discussion of the instincts and habits of the various species. Fine illustrations by Henrik Grönvold. #B359 - $700.00 JARDINE, Sir William. The Naturalist's Library Vol. XIII. Ornithology. Flycatchers by W. SWAINSON. London: Henry G. Bohn, nd. Portrait frontis, hand-colored vignette title page of the Green Tody. In all, 33 hand-colored plates in this volume. Memoir of Baron Haller. Gilt decorated red cloth separating at spine. 256 pp. #B260 - $125.00 JOHNSGARD, Paul A. The Quails, Partridges, and Francolins of the World. Oxford University Press. 1988. Paintings by Major Henry JONES. Range maps. Rubbed dust jacket. 264 pp. #R09031906 - $85.00 JOHNSON, Virginia W. Travels of an American Owl: A Satire. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. 1971. Twelve chapters, each illustrated with a full page silhouette by Augustus Hoppin and engraved by Jasper Green. An amusing tale of the travels of Tib, a young screech owl. Decorated green cloth. Ex-library, cocked. 179 pp. #BR162 - $75.00 KEMP, Alan. The Birds of Prey of Southern Africa. Johannesburg: Winchester Press. 1980. Standard Subscribers edition limited to 1500 copies. 140 color plates by Claude Gibney FINCH-DAVIES, illustrating all the birds of prey, including, owls, known in southern Africa at the beginning of the 20th Century. Kemp’s text includes a biography of FINCH- DAVIES and species accounts of the birds of prey depicted. Dust jacket, card slipcase. 339 pp. #R1508031 - $200.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 23 KEELER, Charles A. Evolution of the Colors of North American Land Birds. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1893. Nineteen plates, many in color, several double-paged. 361 pp. Red buckram, ex-library, hinges reinforced. Original wrappers laid- in. #B228 - $200.00 KIYOSU, Yukiyasu. The Birds of Japan. Three Volumes. Tokyo: Kodansha, nd (1952?). Text in Japanese. Taxonomic names in English and Japanese. Volume I: Passers (binding cracked between pp. 2 & 3); Volume II: Cypseli to Limicolae (several signatures loose); Volume III: Lari to Galli. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos of birds and habitats. Range maps. Color plates of birds, and eggs. Leather spines with gilt illustration on covers in worn slipcases. #B429 - $225.00 LANGRAND, Olivier. Guide to the Birds of Madagascar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Forty color plates by Vincent BRETAGNOLLE. Detailed species accounts. Dust jacket. 364 pp. #11049U - $25.00 LATHAM, Simon. Lathams Falconry: or The Lure and Cure in Two Books and Lathams New and Second Book of Faulconry. Monterey: Bate and Slice Society, 1957. Facsimile reprint of the original 1633 edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is Number 167. Full leather binding. Extensive yellow highlighting in the Table of Contents and first 16 pages of text. 148 pp. #B467 - $450.00 LINSDALE, Jean M. Birds of a Limited Area in Eastern Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin Vol. XVIII, April 1928, No. 11, pp. 517-626. #Z10030409-2 - $15.00 LOCKLEY, R.M. & Rosemary RUSSELL. Bird-Ringing: The Art of Bird Study by Individual Marking. Crosby Lockwood & Son. 1953. Details of trapping birds and field equipment. B&W illustrations and photographs. Ex-library. 119 pp. #B486 - $15.00 MARCHAM, Frederick George. Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Singular Beauty of Birds. New York: Harper & Row. 1971. Retrospective of his painting with text drawn from his letters written from the field. Dust jacket. 220 pp. #R14082606 - $35.00 MAYNARD, C.J. Eggs of North American Birds. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1890. Illustrated with ten hand-colored plates. An annotated list of North American birds, with short descriptions and measurements of their eggs, note on distribution and occasional other remarks. Ex-library, binding tender. #B451 - $95.00 MEINERTZHAGEN, R. Pirates and Predators: The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1959. Eighteen color plates by G.E. Lodge, Millais, and others and b&w drawings and photographs. Chipped dust jacket. Insect chewing to pigment on boards. 230 pp. #R1409123T - $60.00 MERRIAM, C. Hart. Results of a Biological Reconnoissance of south-central Idaho. Washington: GPO, 1891. North American Fauna No. 5. General Results and Annotated Lists of Mammals and Birds by Merriam. Annotated List of Reptiles and Batrachians by Leonhard Stejneger. Three color plates by J.L. RIDGWAY. Worn and torn original wrappers, lacking rear wrapper. 127 pp. #NAF5 - $40.00

24 Order online at www.buteobooks.com MERRIAM, C. Hart. Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and of the Little Colorado, Arizona. Washington: GPO, 1890. North American Fauna No. 3. General Results, Grand Canyon, and Annotated Lists of Mammals and Birds by Merriam. Annotated List of Reptiles and Batrachians by Leonhard STEJNEGER. Thirteen plates, some in color. Five maps in color, some folding. In chipped and worn original wrappers. 136 pp. #NAF3 - $60.00 MERSHON, W.B. The Passenger Pigeon. New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. Nine full-page plates including three in color. Chipped dust jacket. 225 pp. #B406 - $175.00 MILLER, Olive Thorne. The First Book of Birds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899. First edition. Twenty plates (eight colored). Envelope attached to ffep post marked July 1902 with 2 cent First Bureau Issue stamp and letter from the author. Edges and spine insect chewed. 149 pp. #BR139 - $25.00 MOMIYAMA, Toku T., Editor. Annotationes Ornithlogiae Orientalis. Tokyo: Athenaei Ornithologici Momiyamici. Volume I, Numbers 1-5, 501 pp, 1927-1928. Illus with color and b&w plates, maps. Corners bumped and bent. #B395 - $75.00 MONTES DE OCA, Rafael. Hummingbirds and Orchids of Mexico. Mexico: Editorial Fournier, 1963. Limited edition number 0293 of 1500. The introduction and text by Rafael Martín del Campo preceding the 59 color plates describe each and orchid depicted. Mylar protected dust jacket. Small folio. #B256 - $300.00 MORTON, Eugene, Kimberley YOUNG, & Mario RAMOS, Editors. Growing Points in Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation. Special Issue of Bird Conservation International, Volume 4, Numbers 2/3, pp. 69-262, June/September, 1994. Symposium papers on bird migration in the Americas. Paperback. #Z05012702 - $30.00 MOUNTFORT, Guy. The Hawfinch. London: Collins. 1957. New Naturalist Monographs Number 15, 1957. First edition in price clipped dust jacket which appears to have been trimmed exposing a narrow strip of the green cloth boards. 176 pp. #NMN15 - $275.00 MURPHY, Robert Cushman. Oceanic Birds of . New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1936. Two volumes. Set No. 21 of the AMNH edition limited to 1,200 copies. Sixteen plates from the paintings of F.L. JAQUES interspersed throughout both volumes. Photographs, maps, and other drawings. Inscribed by Murphy in 1947 on ffep. Includes prospectus and order form from AMNH with plate of Peruvian . Small spot of sticker residue on spine of Volume II. 1884 pp. #R31082 - $225.00 NELSON, Edward W. Report Upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska Between the Years 1877 and 1881. Washington: GPO, 1887. Part I: Birds of Alaska, with a Partial Bibliography of Alaskan Ornithology, forms the bulk of the book (pp.19-226). Parts II, III, & IV are on mammals, fishes, and Lepidoptera. Twelve colored plates of birds by the R. & J.L. RIDGWAY. Rebound in green and brown cloth. Text block trimmed for binding, affecting some plate numbers at top edge. Plates bright and clean. Occasional pencil X marks in margins of text. 337 pp. #BR13787 - $145.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 25 NETHERSOLE-THOMPSON, Desmond. The Dotterel. London: Collins, 1973. Color frontis. B&W photographs, maps and tables. Dust jacket. 288 pp. #B366 - $45.00 NETHERSOLE-THOMPSON, Desmond. The Snow Bunting. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966. 316 pp. First edition. Damp stain to corners of a few pages and edges. Dust jacket wrinkle and damp stain. #R1405223 - $45.00 NEWTON Ian & Penny OLSEN. Birds of Prey. New York, Facts on File, 1990. With contributions from the world's foremost raptor biologists. Color photos. Color illustrations of many species by Tony PYRZAKOWSKI. Inscribed to Joseph J. Hickey by Stanley A. Temple in recognition of a lifetime devoted to the conservation of wildlife. A unique association copy. Hardcover. 240 pp. #R11090805 - $30.00 OBERHOLSER, Harry C. The Bird Life of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1974. Edited, with distribution maps and additional material, by Edgar B. KINCAID, Jr. Thirty- five full-page color plates from paintings by Louis Agassiz FUERTES as well as many b&w illustrations. Vernon Bailey, Oberholser, and Fuertes began work on this monumental state book in 1901. Two volumes in worn slipcase with split bottom. #R30144 - $120.00 OATES, Eugene W. and W.T. Blandford. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor and Francis, 1889. Volume I-IV (Birds), 1889-1898. Text figures. Volumes I & II by Oates, Volumes III & IV by Blandford. The ornithological numbers in a series of eight volumes. Four volumes in scuffed red leather, hinges reinforced. Marginal notes and some species names underlined in pencil. #B492 - $240.00 PENNANT, Thomas. Indexes to the Ornithologie of the Comte de Buffon and the Planches Enluminées. London: B. White & Son, 1786. Pennant produced two indices to the nine volume edition Comte de Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, one to the text and the other to the plates. The present volume, covering les Plances Enluminees, provides both the Linnaean and English (after Latham) names of the birds of the 1008 species depicted in the plates. A curious and apparently scarce publication. Includes a list of Mr. Pennant's works. Bound in lime buckram, some pencilled numbers. #B491 - $50.00 POOLE, Earl L. A Half Century of Bird Life in Berks County Pennsylvania. Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery Bulletin No. 19, 1947. Annotated list of the birds in Berks County, Southeastern Pennsylvania. With b&w illustrations by the author. Paperback. 139 pp. #R1511111 - $20.00 PRYNNE, Michael. Egg-Shells: An Informal Dissertation on Birds' Eggs in Their Every Aspect and Also Embodying the Repair and Care of Birds' Eggs. London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1963. Part 1: The Collector and the Egg. Part Two: The Repair and Care of Birds' Eggs. Part Three: Probing Other Problems. Color plates, black and white photographs and illustrations. Covers stained. 304 pp. #B401 - $70.00 RIDGELY, Robert S. and Guy TUDOR. The Birds of South America. Austin: University of Texas Press. Volume I: The Oscine Passerines, 516 pp., 1989 and Volume II: The Suboscine Passerines, 814 pp., 1994. Color plates by Guy TUDOR. First printings of both volumes inscribed by Ridgely. Only volumes published to date. #10979S - $150.00

26 Order online at www.buteobooks.com RIDGWAY, Robert and Herbert FRIEDMANN. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalog. Washington: United States National Museum, Bulletin 50, 1901- 1950. Complete in 11 volumes. Mixed bindings: Parts I, II, III, VI, and VIII in original USNM decorated green cloth; Parts IV, V, and VII in new green cloth,; Parts IX, X, and XI in original wrappers. Binding cracked in Part VIII. A Descriptive Catalog of the Higher Groups, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds Known to Occur in North America, from the Arctic Lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and Other Islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago. #B394 - $375.00 RIPLEY, S. Dillon. Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. David R Godine. 1977. With forty-one color plates after paintings by J. Fenwick LANSDOWNE. Includes a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. OLSON. 406 pp. Together with prospectus and letter from Godine. Deluxe edition, half leather over linen boards in slipcase. No. 52 of an edition limited to 400 copies. Signed by author and illustrator. #B377 - $225.00 RIPLEY, S. Dillon. Trail of the Money Bird: 30,000 Miles of Adventure With a Naturalist. Harper & Brothers, 1942. Covers worn, cocked. 305 pp. #R30162 - $12.00 RISING, James D. A Guide to the Identification and Natural History of the Sparrows of the United States and Canada. Academic Press, 1996. Twenty-seven color plates by David BEADLE. Range maps, line drawings. Paperback. 365 pp. #10808 - $25.00 SALOMONSEN, Finn. Gronlands Fugle/The Birds of Greenland. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950-51. Watercolors by GITZ-JOHANSEN with birds portrayed against striking pastel landscapes. Parallel text in Danish and English. Bound in full black calf. Folding map laid-in. 608 pp. #R31101 - $200.00 SAUNDERS, Aretas A. Ecology of the Birds of Quaker Run Valley, Allegany State Park, New York. New York State Museum Handbook 16, 1936. Fold out map and chart. Paperback. 174 pp. #R12022006 - $10.00 SAUNDERS, Aretas A. Studies of Breeding Birds in the Allegany State Park. NY State Museum Bulletin No. 318, 1938. Fold out map. Paperback. 160 pp. #R12022009 - $10.00 SCOTT, William Earl Dodge, R. Bowdler SHARPE, and Witmer STONE. Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to , 1896-1899. Volume II, Ornithology. Originally published in five parts, 1904-1927. Parts I-IV by Scott and Sharpe, Part V by Witmer Stone. Bound here in two volumes, wrappers bound in. Fifteen plates, fourteen of which are hand-colored lithographs after J.G. KEULEMANS. Text figures throughout. Many pages unopened. Publication delayed following the death of the original authors and the onset of World War I. 857 pp. #B375 - $900.00 SEEBOHM, Henry. The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae or the Plovers, Sandpipers, & Allies. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 888. First issue with the Slender-Billed Dotterel as the color frontispiece. Contains superior coloring of 21 hand-colored lithographs by J.G. KEULEMANS. Professionally rebacked. Wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Bookplates on fep, one obliterated. Plate XI (Somali Courser) moderately foxed. 524 pp. #R31108 - $2,500.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 27 SHARPE, Bowdler R. A Hand-Book to the Birds of . London: Edward Lloyd, 1896-97. Volumes I-IV in Lloyd's Natural History series. Inner hinges weak, cracked in Volumes I and II. Shelf wear. Color plates throughout. #B175 - $100.00 SHELLEY, G.E. A Handbook of the Birds of Egypt. London: John Van Voorst. 1872. A review of the birds previously recorded or collected by the author on his travels to Egypt, up the Nile from Alexandria to the Second Cataract with an excursion to Faroom. Fourteen fine hand-colored lithographs by J.G. Keuleman (Plate XIV bound out of order). Crudely rebacked, pp.103-106 loose. Marginal notations in ink by previous owner W.G. Van Dyck. 342 pp. #DW140901 - $300.00 SMITH, Stuart. The Yellow Wagtail. London: Collins, 1950. New Naturalist Monographs Number 4, 1950. First edition in price-clipped dust jacket. 178 pp. #B381 - $20.00 SMYTHIES, Bertram E. The Birds of Burma. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1953. Second (Revised) Edition. Thirty-one color plates by A.M. HUGHES. Folding map. Includes systematic list of the birds of Burma (Myanmar). 668 pp. Worn and rubbed dust jacket. #R31117 - $30.00 SPAULDING, Edward S. The Quails. New York: MacMillan, 1949. Six color plates by Francis Lee JAQUES. 123 pp. Chipped dust jacket. #B414 - $20.00 STEJNEGER, Leonhard. Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and Kamtschatka. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. USNM Bulletin No. 29. Eight tissue protected hand-colored lithographic plates of bird heads. Sketch map of Kamtschatka and adjacent countries. Ex-library (The Natural History Society of Maryland) in chipped and worn original grey wrapper. Front wrapper nearly detached. Scarce. 382 pp. #B408 - $375.00 STEWART, Robert E. and Chandler S. ROBBINS. Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia. North American Fauna Number 62. Washington: GPO, 1958. Maps. 401 pp. Original wrappers. Inscribed by both authors. #Z10110903 - $25.00 STONHAM, Charles. The Birds of the British Islands in Twenty Parts. London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. Illustrated with 318 monochrome drawings by L.M. MEDLAND, each plate protected by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Parts I-XX in original wrappers showing varying degrees of wear, front wrapper of Part I detached. Lacks folding maps. #C102 - $400.00 SUTTON, George Miksch. The Exploration of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum, 1932. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum: Volume XII, Part I, Section 1, Prefatory; Section 2, Introductory; and Section 3, Bibliography of Part I and II, Section 2. Part II, Zoology: Section 1, The Mammals of Southampton Island, by Sutton and William J. Hamilton, Jr.; Section 2, The Birds of Southampton Island; Section 3, Some Fishes of Southampton Island by Arthur W. Henn. Complete Parts I and II rarely offered together. Twenty-four plates composed of black and white photographs and four color plates by SUTTON. Bound in blue buckram with leather spine label. #B371 - $300.00

28 Order online at www.buteobooks.com SUTTON, George Miksch. Portraits of Mexican Birds: Fifty Selected Paintings. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. Sutton’s paintings reproduced here represent a time span of 35 years of field work in Mexico. Each full page color plate has a facing page of text of the artist’s observations on the species. Dust jacket, fore edge foxing. Small folio. 106 pp. Collotype prints of four of the species found in this volume may be purchased from Buteo Books. #B494 - $35.00 SWARTH, Harry S. The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, Occasional Paper XVIII, 1931. Folding map. Original wrappers, unopened. 299 pp. #B413 - $22.50 SWARTH, Harry S. Birds and Mammals of the Skeena River Region of Northern British Columbia. UC Publications in Zoology, Vol 24, No, 3, pp.315-394, 1924. B&W photos. Bound in marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. #B403 - $22.00 SWARTH, Harry S. Report on a Collection of Birds and Mammals from Vancouver Island. UC Publications in Zoology, Vol 10, No, 1, pp.1-124, 1912. B&W photos, map. Green cloth, original wrappers bound in. #B403 - $35.00 TAKA-TSUKASA, Nobusuke. The Birds of Nippon. Tokyo: Maruzen Company, 1967. Maps, three color plates. Covers game and shorebirds with a supplement on parrots. Published posthumously. 701 pp. Red & black cloth with plain dust jacket in worn and soiled slipcase. Last signature in index starting to separate from binding. 701 pp. #B396 - $175.00 TAYLOR, Henry Reed. Taylor's Standard American Egg Catalogue. Alameda: H.R.Taylor. 1904. Second edition. Collector's Handbook. A Correct Basis for the Exchange of Nests and Eggs Arranged with Margin for Check-list. Directory of prominent Oologists. Original wrappers. 92 pp. ($350 for California egg!) #B489 - $20.00 THORBURN, A. British Birds. Volumes I-IV. Longman's, Green and Co. Volume I, Fourth Edition, 143 pp., 20 plates; Volume II, Fourth Edition, 72 pp., 20 plates; Volume III, Third Edition, 87 pp., 20 plates.; Volume IV, Fourth Edition, 116 pp., 22 plates. Each volume of this new edition dated 1918 with a total of 82 stubbed-in plates on heavy card stock. Four volumes bound in red cloth, teg. Spines dull, some bubbling to the cloth of Volume IV. #B393 - $280.00 THORBURN, Alexander. A Naturalist's Sketch Book. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919. Limited Edition No. 101 of 105. Sixty plates mounted on card stock with tissue guards: twenty-four in color and thirty-six in black & white depicting birds and a handful of mammals. 'This series of water color and pencil sketches reproduced in this volume have been gathered from various sketch books and portfolios, representing part of the congenial though by no means easy labour of some thirty years, and were drawn mostly direct from life in many parts of the British Islands, with a few pictures, showing the birds in their natural surroundings, have been added.' A. T. TEG. Some insect chewing to boards, bumped corners. Folio, 13 1/2 in x 16 in. #B424 - $350.00

Toll-Free: 800-722-2460 M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time 29 TUCK, Leslie M. The Snipes: A Study of the Genus Capella. Canadian Wildlife Services. 1972. Focus on Wilson's , Capella gallinago delicata. Color frontis, photographs, maps and illustrations. Bumped corners. 428 pp. #B356 - $15.00 TURNER, Angela and Chris ROSE. Swallows & Martins: An Identification Guide and Handbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. A reference to the biology and ecology of the 74 species of swallows and martins throughout the world. Illustrated with color plates. Dust jacket. 258 pp. #14287 - $10.00 TURNER, L.M. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. Results of investigations made chiefly in the Yukon District and the Aleutian Islands: Conducted under the auspices of the Signal Service, United States Army, extending from May, 1874, to August, 1881. Fourteen b&w plates of fish, (fish plate XV blank) and eleven colored bird plates by R. & J.L. RIDGWAY with tissue guards (Plate XI bound out of order). Worn original black cloth. 226 pp. #CONTAK - $175.00 UCHIDA, Seinosuke. Photographs of Bird-Life in Japan. Tokyo: Sanseido Co. Volume I, 1930 and Volume II - Birds of Mt. Fuji, 1931. Parallel text in English and Japanese. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs of birds, nests, and fledglings. An occasional color photograph. Original embossed cloth with faded and worn spines. Water stain to covers of Volume I. #B419 - $150.00 VAN ROSSEM, A.J. Report on a Collection of Land Birds From Sonora, Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History Volume VI, No. 19, pp. 237-304, 1931. Map. Original wrappers. #B389 - $12.00 VAN TYNE, Josselyn and George Miksch SUTTON. The Birds of Brewster County, Texas. Michigan Museum of Zoology, Miscellaneous Publication No. 37, 1937. Color frontis of Fuertes' Red-tailed . B&W photos. Paperback. 119 pp. #13469 - $10.00 VAURIE, Charles. The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna: A Systematic Reference. London: H.F. & G. Witherby. Volume 1: Passeriformes, 1959, 762 pp., lacking dust jacket. Volume 2: Non-Passeriformes, 1965, 763 pp, in chipped dust jacket. #Z0311063 - $225.00 VAURIE, Charles. Tibet and its Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby Limited, 1972. Vaurie covers the history of ornithological exploration in Tibet, discusses the distribution of its avifauna, and summarizes what little is known about migration. Systematic list of 505 species. Color plates by A. SINGER. TEG. Dust jacket. 407 pp. #B355 - $75.00 VERBEEK, Nicolaas A.M. The Exploitation System of the Yellow-billed Magpie. University of California Publications in Zoology: Volume 99, 1973. Detailed life history of California's only endemic species. Paperback. 58 pp. #B481 - $15.00 WALPOLE-BOND, John. A History of Sussex Birds. Volumes I-III. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1938. Volume I, 381 pp.; Volume II, 384 pp.; Volume III, 384 pp. With fifty-three color plates by Philip RICKMAN. TEG. Lightly bumped corners. #B392 - $175.00 WETMORE, Alexander & Bradshaw H. SWALES. The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Smithsonian Institution. 1931. USNM Bulletin 155. B&W plates after paintings

30 Order online at www.buteobooks.com by Allan BROOKS. B&W photographs. Foldout map. Annotated list with descriptions and discussion of each species on the island of Hispaniola. Original wrappers, front wrapper detached. 483 pp. #R1406183P - $20.00 WETMORE, Alex. Birds of Porto Rico. Washington: GPO, 1916. Government of Porto Rico, Board of Commissioners of Agriculture, Insular Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 15. Color frontis of Puerto Rican Tody by Louis Agassiz FUERTES, additional b&w plates by Fuertes. Folding map. Original wrappers, a bit soiled. 140 pp. #B445 - $85.00 WETMORE, Alex. The Birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Colymbiformes to Columbiformes. New York Academy of Sciences: Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Volume IX, Part 3, pp. 243-406, 1927. Original wrappers, water stain and chips to top edge of final pages and section of plates. #B446 - $20.00 WHEELER, Geo. M. & John J. STEVENSON. Report Upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian: Volume V - Zoology. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. Reports upon the Zoological Collections Obtained from Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. In 16 chapters illustrated by 45 plates and 3 wood-cuts. Fifteen color plates of birds and 6 of lepidoptera. Mammals by Elliott COUES and H.C. YARROW; Birds by H.W. HENSHAW; Batrachians and Reptiles by YARROW; Fishes by E.D. COPE and YARROW. Additional chapters on insects, mollusca, and leeches by various authors. Bird plates by R. RIDGWAY bright. Original cloth, rebacked. A massive volume, 1021 pp. #B480 - $700.00 WHITTELL, Hubert Massey. The Literature of Australian Birds: A History and a Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth: Paterson Brokensha, 1954. First edition. 32 b&w plates. Original brown cloth, boards bumped and creased. A scarce reference. 788 pp. (Also available, Martino reprint, 1994. #BR494 - $45.00) #13799 - $150.00 WHYMPER, Charles. Egyptian Birds: For the Most Part Seen in the Nile Valley. London: A&C Black. 1909. Fifty-one tissue guarded color plates by the author. With maps and illustrations. Starting at inner hinges, head of spine is chipped and torn. Some foxing. Original illustrated cover and spine. TEG. 221 pp. #Z07112912 - $65.00 WILSON, Alexander & T.M. BREWER. Wilson’s American Ornithology, with Notes By Jardine:. H.S. Samuels. 1852. To Which is Added a Synopsis of American Birds, Including Those Described By Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson by T.M. Brewer. New York: H.S. Samuels, 1852. Reprint of Brewer's edition (1839). Plates reproduced in b&w. Contains the entirety of Wilson's charming text. Rebound in burgundy buckram with leather spine label. #B189 - $120.00 WINKLER, Hans, David A. CHRISTIE & David NURNEY. Woodpeckers: An Identification Guide to the Woodpeckers of the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1995. 64 color plates. In this book, all 214 species of woodpeckers, including the little-known and enigmatic tiny Piculets, mainly of South America, are described and illustrated, and information is given on their distributions, habitats, and habits. Dust jacket. 406 pp.

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ALDEN, Peter & John GOODERS. Finding Birds Around the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. 683 pp. #11158 - $5.00 ALI, Salim & S. Dillon RIPLEY. A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. 106 plates by John Henry DICK. $14059 - $5.00 BENT, Arthur Cleveland. Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds. New York: Dover, 1963. Paperback reprint of USNM Bulletin 235, 1926. #10006 - $5.00 DICKINSON, E.C. & J.V. REMSEN, JR., Editors. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th Edition. Volume One, Non-passerines. Aves Press, 2013. 461 pp. #HMC1 - $5.00 DORST, Jean. The Life of Birds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Two volumes, 718 pp. in all. #R11011301 - $5.00 HANCOCK, James A. Birds of the Wetlands. New York: Facts on File, 1981. Color photos. 152 pp. #11851 - $5.00 JEHL, Joseph R., Jr. & Ned K. JOHNSON. A Century of Avifaunal Change in Western North America. Cooper Ornithological Society, 1994. 348 pp. #SAB15 - $5.00 KEITH, Allan R. & Robert P. FOX. The Birds of New Hampshire. Cambridge: Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No. 19, 2013. #NOCM19 - $5.00 KEMP, Alan. The Owls of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1987. Paintings by Simon CALBURN. Slipcase. 184 pp. #12199 - $5.00 LOCKLEY, R.M. Shearwaters. London: J.M. Dent or New York: Devi-Adair, 1942. 238 pp. #Z10021803 - $5.00 PENNY, Malcolm. The Birds of the and the Outlying Islands. London: Collins or New York:Taplinger, 1974. Illus by Chloe Talbot Kelly. #Z10051905 - $5.00 RATCLIFFE, Derek A. The . Vermillion: Buteo Books, 1980. First American edition. 416 pp. #12823 - $5.00 STOKES, Ted/ Birds of the . New York: Macmillan, 1968. Paintings by Keith SHACKLETON. 156 pp. #Z10101206 - $5.00 TWOMEY, Arthur C. The Birds of the Uinta Basin, Utah. Pittsburgh: Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 341-490, 1942. Original wrappers. #C108 - $5.00 WATSON, George E. Seabirds of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Washington: Smithsonian

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A Monograph of the Birds of Prey (Order Accipitres) H. Kirke Swann and Alexander Wetmore Wheldon & Wesley, 1930 Beautifully bound in half red leather, raised bands, gold decorations on spine. Top edges gilt. Thirty-four colored plates after paintings by H. Grönvold, seventeen photogravures, and five colored egg plates. Published in 16 Parts, 1924- 1945, in an edition limited to 412 copies. Wrappers bound in at the end of each volume. #C116 - $1,500.00

Extinct Birds: An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times - that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. Walter Rothschild London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Forty-five colored plates by Keulemans, Lodge, Grönvold, Smit and Frohawk. Number 141 of an edition limited to 300 copies, signed by the author. Bibliography. Half black leather over green boards. A heavy, imperial volume. Front hinge professionally repaired. Particulars of original purchase (25 pounds sterling) and customs documents to J.A. Mott of Des Moines laid in. Provenance of ownership and newspaper article from the Chicago Sunday Tribune attached in part to front marbled endpapers. Plates are stubbed in. The twenty-seven chromolithographic plates after Keulemans are among the final efforts of his brilliant and prolific career as a bird artist. A rare book at a remarkable price. #ES1409013 - $7,000.00

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