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Catalogueofacollectionofbooksonornithology 10285952.Pdf CATALOGUE O F A COLLECTI ON O F B O OKS ON OR N ITH O L O GY IN TH E LI B RARY O F J O HN E THAYER COMP I LED BY EVE LYN TH AYE R A ND VI RGI N I A KEYES B OSTON PRI VATELY P RI NTED CATALOGUE i d a . b r s bou t ABBOTT , CHARLES CONRAD The Phil el hi . ad a . us . By Charles Conrad Abbott p , J B - 1 . 2 8 . 2 . Lippincott Company, 895 xi , 9 8 pp illus , 4 pl (incl . front . ) ABBOTT , CHARLES CONRAD . The Carolina ' C . Wren ; a year of its life . By Charles Abbott , M D 2 1—2 atural pp . 5 . (From the American N ist , Jan . , . skies ABBOTT , CHARLES CONRAD Clear and cloudy . By Charles C . Abbott , M . D . Philadelphia C 1 o . o . 8 . 1 6 . and L ndon , J . B Lippincott , 99 3 pp °m ' l . 1 8 front ; i lus . with photographs ABBOTT , FRANCES MATILDA . Birds and flowers about Concord , New Hampshire . By Frances M . Abbott Concord , N . H . , Rumford Printing °m' 1 06 . 1 0 . 1 1 1 Company , 9 . xxi pp , 4 pp , . 8 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF f PH ILADELPH IA . Proceedings o the Academy of f o . Natural Sciences Philadelphia Philadelphia . 1 8 —1 0 —0 6 Printed for the Academy, 59 9 3 4 . 3 vols . — 1 8 1 0 . l . l . Dated 58 9 3 co p s maps and illus . ADAMS , HENRY GARD INER . Hummingbirds , described and illustrated . By H . G . Adams With eight coloured plates . London , Groombridge Sons . 2 1 . ] pp . 44 pp illus . , 8 co . pl . (incl . front . ) cm I 8% . JOHN E . THAYER COLLECTION of ADAMS , HENRY GARDINER . Nests and eggs familiar birds , described and illus . with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects , and their times and modes of building . By H . G . Adams . Illus . with 1 6 col . pl . London , Groombridge Sons , °m' ‘ l 1 8 1 2 8 . co . 1 7 . 3 pp front col pl g ADAMS , HENRY GARD INER . The smaller Brit i s of hbirds , with descriptions their nests , eggs , habits , etc . By H . G . and H . B . Adams , illustrated with col f oured pl o n . , g, ates birds a d eggs Lon“don Gibbin 1 8 . 2 2 2 l . 2 94 iv , 5 pp . 3 co . pl front 7 ADAMSON , CHARLES MURRAY . Another f book o scraps principally relating to natural history , with 37 lithograph illus . from pen and ink sketches of wild birds . By Charles Murray Adamson . Adam 1 8 2 6 6 1 2 Reid 8 . 5 pp . 3 illus . AGASSIZ , LOUIS . A journey in Brazil . By Prof . Mrs . n and Louis Agassiz . Boston , Tick or Fields , 6 1 8 8 . 0 . xix , 54 pp front . illus . of : AGASSIZ , LOUIS . Principles zoology touching l the structure , development , distribution and natura of f arrangement the races o animals , living and extinct . With numerous illus . Part I . Comparative physi ology . By Louis Agassiz and Augustus A . Gould . n 1 8 2 1 6 Boston , Gould , Kendall Li coln , 48 . xix , pp . front . illus . AGASSIZ , LOUIS . Thayer Expedition . Scientific f results o a journey in Brazil . By Louis Agassiz . Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil . By Ch . i Fred . Hartt , with llus . and maps . Boston , Fields , Co. 1 8 0 . 620 . Osgood , 7 xxiii , pp front . illus maps 2 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY l . a ALBERT , FREDERICO Contribuciones estudio de aves Chileans . Por Frederico Albert . Santiago de - — 8 1 0 1 . 1 60 0 1 8 8 . Chile , Imprenta Cervantes , 9 9 pp 5 f o . ALB IN , ELEAZAR . A natural history birds l 0 1 s . Illus . with 1 copper p curiously engraved from the life . Pub . by the author, Eleazar Albin , and carefully ’ colou r d by his daughter and self from the originals , — 1 1 8 . drawn from the live birds . London , 73 5 3 vols 1 0 1 col . pl . l i natu ra h stor . ALB IN , ELEAZAR . A y of birds Illustr ated with copper plates , curiously engraven ’ colou r d from the life . And exactly by the author, Eleazar Albin . To which are added notes and observa mm tions by W . Derham London . Printed for W . I ys -cm‘ 1 8 . 06 . 2 x2 and R . Manby , 73 3 vols 3 col pl 9% 4 - — ' 2 o s . Vol . Title pages of vols . 1 read In two v l 3 has title : A natural history of birds P ublished by the ’ l colou r d his dau h author Eleazar Albin , and carefu ly by g 11 i . e . ter and himself vol . ( vol —2 l Vols . 1 were pub ished in 1 838 . ALEXANDER EXPED ITION TO ALASKA , - 1 0 of 1 907 9 9 . University California publication in — 1 0 1 1 . Zoology , 9 9 Berkeley , The University Press 3 vols . : 1 Contents 1 . Birds and mammals of the 907 Alexan n der expeditio to southeastern Alaska Introduction . nn . J . Gri ell , etc (Illus . ) 2 1 0 8 l . Birds of the 9 Alexander A aska expedition . With note on the avifaunal relationships of the Prince William . os Sound district By J eph Grinnell . n 3 . Birds a d mammals of the 1 909 Alexander Alaska . a . expedition By H rry S Swarth . (Map . ) ALP HERAKY , SERGIUS . The geese of Europe and Asia , being the description of most of the old world JOHN E . THAYER COLLECTION species by Sergius Alphéraky with twenty-four rohawk coloured plates by F . W . F and frontis R. shkin . piece by Dr . P . P . Su London , Ward , Ltd cm 1 0 11 2 col . x2 8 9 5 . ix , 1 98 pp . col . front . 4 pl 342 f r ALLEN , GLOVER MORRILL . A list o the bi ds of New Hampshire . By Glover M . Allen Manches - H 1 0 . 2 . 2 2 22 ter, N . , Nature Study Press , 9 3 pp [ 31 mm - ALLEN , JOEL ASAPH . The Masked Bob white i w i f z . (Colinus r dg ay ) o Ari ona and its allies By J A . — l . A 2 2 0 . I CO . Allen . pp . 73 9 pl ( merican f n . Mus . o Nat . Hist . Bulletin o A . LLEN , JOEL ASAPH Notes of an ornithological of reconnoissance of portions Kansas , Colorado , Wyom 1 8 2 . ing and Utah . By J . A . Allen , July , 7 Cambridge, ‘ . C University Press Printed by Welch , Bigelow o. ALLEN , JOEL ASAPH . Notice of some Venezuelan m Mr . birds collected by s . H . H . S ith On a collection of birds from Chapada , Matto Grosso , Brazil , made n of by Mr . H . H . Smith . Notes o a collection birds of from Quito , Ecuador . List birds collected in R s fi Bolivia by Dr . H . H . u by, with eld notes by the C clorhis ividis Vieill collector . On y v ( ) and its near allies , with remarks on other species of the genus cl rhi of Cy o s . Descriptions new species of South American birds with remarks on various other little n e f k own species . On the Maximillian typ s o South American birds in the American Mu seum of Natural cm“ n . 2 History By J . A . Allen . [ . d n . pub . 1 v . p . 4 ALLEN , JOEL ASAPH . Ornithological notes from ' ll A. A en n . o the west By J . I . Notes the birds of . 26 Kansas I I Notes on the birds of Colorado . pp . 3 2 2 404 . 1 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY ALLEN , JOEL ASAPH . The types of the North ’ American genera of birds . By J . A . Allen . Author s edition extracted from Bulletin of the American l . Vo . XVI M useum of Natural Hist XVIII , Art , pp . — 8 1 1 0 . 2 74 3 4 . New York, April 5 , 9 7 AMERICAN NATURALIST . A popular illus 1 868— 1 8 8 trated magazine of natural history , 9 , vols . — — m 1 868 1 8 8 . 2 . 1 33 . Boston , 9 33 vols illus 4 Vols — — 10 1 1 . I 2 1 9 , pub . Salem , Mass . Vols . , Boston Vols l 2 . Vo . 3 1 , Philadelphia 3 , Boston ’ AM ERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS UNION . The code of nomenclature and check-list of North Ameri ' n can birds . Adopted by the American Or ithologists of Union . Being the report of the committee the union fi on classi cation and nomenclature . New York , Amer ’ 6 2 . ican Ornithologists Union , 1 88 . iv , 39 pp First edition . ’ AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS UNION . Check-list of North American birds prepared by a m f ’ com ittee o the American Ornithologists Union . 1 2 2 d New York , A . O U . 895 , 1 9 10 . vols . and 3d 2 d 2 editions . edition , xi , 37 pp . 3d edition 0 (revised) , 43 pp . front . (map) . ANDERSON , CHARLES JOHN . Notes on the birds of Damaraland and the adjacent countries of - south west Africa . By the late Charles John Anderson . Arranged and edited by John Henry Gurney , with in r uc some additional notes by the editor, and an t od ’ tory chapter containing a sketch of the author s life ; n abridged from the original published in Sweden . Lo 1 8 2 . don , John van Voorst , 7 . xlviii , 394 pp . front l “ (map) . 3 p 2 3 ANDRE , E . A naturalist in the Guianas . By Eugene Andre. With a preface by Dr . J . Scott Keltie , with 34 5 JOHN E . THAYER COLLECTION ’ illus . and a map . New York, Charles Scribner s Sons . 1 . 1 0 . London , Smith , Elder Co. , 904 xiv, 3 pp front m ' 2 ‘ port .
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