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American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson. : with figures drawn, engraved, and coloured, from nature. / By Charles Lucian Bonaparte.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--United States.
- Birds.
- United States.
- Birds--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : color illustrations ; 40 cm
- Other Title:
- Natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Carey ; London : John Miller, 1825-1833.
- Contents:
- Vol I
- American goldfinch
- Arkansaw flycatcher
- Arkansaw siskin
- Band-tailed pigeon
- Burrowing owl
- Cape-may warbler, female
- Crimson-necked Bullfinch
- Fork-tailed flycatcher
- Fulvous or cliff swallow
- Golden-crowned gold-crest, female
- Gold-winged warbler, female
- Great crow-blackbird
- Lark finch
- Lazuli finch
- Orange-crowned warbler
- Rocky-Mountain antcatcher
- Say's flycatcher
- Swallow-tailed flycatcher
- Wild turkey
- Yellow-bellied woodpecker, young
- Yellow-headed troopial - Vol II - Blue hawk
- Coerulean warbler, female
- Cooper's hawk
- Evening grosbeak
- Florida jay
- Indigo finch, female
- Lapland longspur
- Northern three-toed woodpecker
- Palm warbler
- Red-headed woodpecker, young
- Rose-beasted grosbeak, female
- Steller's jay
- White-tailed hawk
- White-winged crossbill, female - Vol III - Bohemian wax-wing
- Cock of the plains
- Dusky grous
- Pallas' dipper
- Pine bullfinch, female
- Sharp-tailed grous
- Spotted grous
- White-crowned pigeon
- Zenaida dove - Vol IV - Condor
- Esquimaux Curlew
- Florida gallinule
- Glossy ibis
- Hyperborean phalarope
- Long-legged sandpiper
- Peale's egrot heron
- Pectoral sandpiper
- Piping plover
- Red-breasted snipe
- Schinz's sandpiper
- Scolopaceous courlan
- Semipalmated plover, young
- Wilson's phalarope
- Yellow-breasted rail.
- Notes:
- Sequel to: American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson.
- Vols. 4 has imprint: Philadelphia : Carey & Lea [etc.].
- Plates drawn by Titian R. Peale and A. Rider, engraved by Alexander Lawson. Plate IV is John James Audubon's first published drawing.
- Collation: v. 1: vi, [1], 105, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 2: vii, [3], 95, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 60 p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 142 p., [6] leaves of plates.
- Imprint varies; v. 2-4: Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Carey.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 6264
- Shoemaker 19787
- OCLC:
- 1452584
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