Birds of the Colorado Valley : a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology. Part first, Passeres to Laniidæ / by Elliott Coues.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899.

Contributor:

Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)

Series:

Miscellaneous publications (Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)) ; no. 11.

Miscellaneous publications / Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey of the Territories ; no. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico).

Birds.

Birds--North America.

North America.

North America--Colorado River Valley.

Penn Provenance:

Schuyler, Robert L., 1947- (donor) (RBC copy)

Bouthillette, Andre (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 807 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1878.

Summary:

This treatise may be regarded as complementary to the "Birds of the Northwest" (Misc. Pub. No. 3). It covers much ground not gone over in the latter work, in all that relates to the technicalities of the general subject, as well as to the particular life-histories of the birds composing the remarkable avian fauna of the Colorado Basin. As originally projected for publication in a different connection, the work consisted merely of a report upon the peculiar features of bird-life in the area under consideration, with biographies of the species not treated in the "Birds of the Northwest". But the author's resources have proved to be so largely in excess of the requirements of such a report that the work has outgrown the limits of a single volume, and become a full exposition of our present knowledge of the subject, by the incorporation of much technical matter concerning North American ornithology at large, hitherto the private possession of the author and now first made accessible to the public.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Thrushes. pp. 1

Chapter 2. Bluebirds. pp. 76

Chapter 3. Dippers. pp. 84

Chapter 4. Old World Warblers. pp. 91

Chapter 5. Wren-Tits. pp. 108

Chapter 6. Titmice. 111

Chapter 7. Nuthatches. pp. 132

Chapter 8. Creepers. pp. 143

Chapter 9. Wrens. pp. 152

Chapter 10. Larks. pp. 182

Chapter 11. Wagtails. pp. 191

Chapter 12. American Warblers. pp. 196

Chapter 13. Tanagers. pp. 346

Chapter 14. Swallows. pp. 364

Chapter 15. Waxwings. pp. 449

Chapter 16. Greenlets. pp. 483

Chapter 17. Shrikes. pp. 535

List of faunal publications relating to North American ornithology. pp. 567

Index to Bibliography. pp. 747

Index to whole volume. pp. 785.

Notes:

At head of title: Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survery of the Territories, F.V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist-in-Charge.

No more published.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-746) and indexes.

Local Notes:

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Professor Robert L. Schuyler.

RBC copy has ownership stamp on title page, which reads "Que Scay-Je? Andre Bouthillette Ex Libris."

Other Format:

Online version: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Birds of the Colorado Valley.

OCLC:

2561706