sN UTRACY> IRWIN^ STOKER * yesterday morning n. -a - . p - of the s^lSSi-*-- 1 * 1 of Lancaster, jj e was born in Cotton, the first mincer o^ ^ ha d therefore just ' Lancaster, in Angus ^, , ^ Bogton entered upon h f ^j^entice in the count- ^P. and entered as an ton.where he remained a few J"*'* 11 ' taste a nd his pursuits to one more "jjj f * m0 n e y-broker. better suited to his I lents, ^^^ foresig ht and dis- possessing great s ' C ' ly ' accumu i ate d a very large criminating judgment, < ^ ^ ^ ban king bouse of fortune, and became 1 ^ coun try. His prosperity the very first standing n c acco rdance enabled him to dtatriDute .^^V^ U0 8p aring w \th his ^^^^'.^.^stuutions, religious, lit band. Numerous P UD ' indebted to his lib- erary, and charitable, us meut . onfed the Boston erality ; among w^chmay^ usRtts ^^ , Athenjeum and t of the Be nev- annual contribution to VV ^^ of Churches was, we^D^ ^^ ^ ivate munificence, of which ^r^-^^r^^; and affectionate. Hew ^^ a studen t in Har- former wife, a so v ft was a constant nevert W as known Princes We cannot . " whose stainless rt g than! all must obey. /?<2 9. 7 CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHN E. THAYER COMPILED BY EVELYN THAYER AND VIRGINIA KEYES BOSTON PRIVATELY PRINTED CATALOGUE ABBOTT, CHARLES CONRAD. The birds about us. By Charles Conrad Abbott . . . Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1895. xi, 9-288 pp. illus., 24 pi. (incl. front.) ABBOTT, CHARLES CONRAD. The Carolina Wren; a year of its life. By Charles C. Abbott, M.D. [1884.] pp. 21-25. 23 cm< (From the American Natural- ist, Jan., 1884.) ABBOTT, CHARLES CONRAD. Clear skies and cloudy. By Charles C. Abbott, M.D. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1899. 316 pp. front.; illus. with photographs. iS 031 ' ABBOTT, FRANCES MATILDA. Birds and flowers about Concord, New Hampshire. By Frances M. Abbott . . . Concord, N. H., Rumford Printing Company, 1906. xxi pp., II., 140 pp., II. IS ' ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Printed for the Academy, 1859-1903-04. 36 vols. Dated 1858-1903. col. pis. maps and illus. 24- ADAMS, HENRY GARDINER. Hummingbirds, described and illustrated. By H. G. Adams . . . With eight coloured plates. London, Groombridge & Sons. [1856.] 2 pp. i., 144 pp. illus., 8 col. pi. (incl. front.) JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION ADAMS, HENRY GARDINER. Nests and eggs of 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. pi. London, Groombridge & Sons, 1871. 238 pp. front, col. col. pi. IQ *' ADAMS, HENRY GARDINER. The smaller Brit- ish birds, with descriptions of their nests, eggs, habits, etc. By H. G. and H. B. Adams, illustrated with col- oured plates of birds and eggs. London, Gibbing, 1894. i y 2 5 2 PP- 3 2 col. pi. front. 27 cm> ADAMSON, CHARLES MURRAY. Another book of scraps principally relating to natural history, with 37 lithograph illus. from pen and ink sketches of wild birds. By Charles Murray Adamson. Adam Reid . . . 1882. 56 pp. 36 illus. I2^x28 cm - AGASSIZ, LOUIS. A journey in Brazil. By Prof, and Mrs. Louis Agassiz. Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1868. xix, 540 pp. front, illus. 22| cm< AGASSIZ, LOUIS. Principles of zoology : touching the structure, development, distribution and natural arrangement of the races of animals, living and extinct. With numerous illus. . . . Part I. Comparative physi- ology. By Louis Agassiz and Augustus A. Gould. Boston, Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1848. xix, 216 pp. front, illus. 2O cm - AGASSIZ, LOUIS. Thayer Expedition. Scientific results of a journey in Brazil. By Louis Agassiz. Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil. By Ch. Fred. Hartt, with illus. and maps. Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. xxiii, 620 pp. front, illus. maps. BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY ALBERT, FREDERICO. Contribuciones al estudio de aves Chileans. For Frederico Albert. Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Cervantes, 1898-1901. pp. 160-580. 24 cm - ALB IN, ELEAZAR. A natural history of birds. Illus. with 101 copper pis. curiously engraved from the life. Pub. by the author, Eleazar Albin, and carefully colour'd by his daughter and self from the originals, drawn from the live birds. London, 1731-58. 3 vols. 101 col. pi. 30^ ALBIN, ELEAZAR. A natural history of birds. Illustrated with . . . copper plates, curiously engraven from the life. And exactly colour'd by the author, Eleazar Albin. To which are added notes and observa- tions by W. Derham . . . London. Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, 1738. 3 vols. 306 col. pi. 2^x2^ cm - Title-pages of vols. 1-2 read: ... In two vols. Vol. 3 has title: A natural history of birds . . . Published by the author Eleazar Albin, and carefully colour'd by his daugh- ter and himself . . . vol. n (i.e. vol. in). Vols. 1-2 were published in 1838. ALEXANDER EXPEDITION TO ALASKA, 1907-1909. University of California publication in Zoology, 1909-11. Berkeley, The University Press. 3 vols. 27 cm - Contents: I. Birds and mammals of the 1907 Alexan- der expedition to southeastern Alaska . . . Introduction. J. Grinnell, etc. . . . (Illus.) 2. Birds of the 1908 Alexander Alaska expedition. With note on the avifaunal relationships of the Prince William Sound district. By Joseph Grinnell. 3. Birds and mammals of the 1909 Alexander Alaska expedition. By Harry S. Swarth. (Map.) ALPHERAKY, SERGIUS. The geese of Europe and Asia, being the description of most of the old world JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION species by Sergius Alph6raky . . . with twenty-four coloured plates by F. W. Frohawk . . . and frontis- piece by Dr. P. P. Sushkin. London, R. Ward, Ltd., 1905. ix, 198 pp., n. col. front. 24 col. pi. ALLEN, GLOVER MORRILL. A list of the birds of New Hampshire. By Glover M. Allen . . . Manches- ter, N. H., Nature Study Press, 1903. 2 pp. I., [2^-222 PP. ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH. The Masked Bob-white (Colinus ridgwayi) of Arizona and its allies. By J. A. Allen. [1886.] pp. 273-290. i col. pi. 23 cm - (American Mus. of Nat. Hist. Bulletin no. 7.) ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH. Notes of an ornithological reconnoissance of portions of Kansas, Colorado, Wyom- ing and Utah. By J. A. Allen, July, 1872. Cambridge, University Press. Printed by Welch, Bigelow & Co. ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH. Notice of some Venezuelan birds collected by Mrs. H. H. Smith. On a collection of birds from Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, made by Mr. H. H. Smith. Notes on a collection of birds from Quito, Ecuador. List of birds collected in Bolivia by Dr. H. H. Rusby, with field notes by the collector. On Cyclorhis vividis (Vieill) and its near allies, with remarks on other species of the genus Cyclorhis. Descriptions of new species of South American birds with remarks on various other little known species. On the Maximillian types of South American birds in the American Museum of Natural History ... By J. A. Allen, [n. d. n. pub.] v. p. 24 cm - ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH. Ornithological notes from the west. By J. A. Allen. I. Notes on the birds of Kansas. II. Notes on the birds of Colorado, pp. 263- 404. 22^ cm - 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 Museum of Natural Hist. Vol. xvm, Art. xvi, pp. 274-384. New York, April 15, 1907. AMERICAN NATURALIST. A popular illus- trated magazine of natural history, 1868-1898, vols. 1-33. Boston, 1868-1898. 33 vols. illus. 24 cm> Vols. 1-9, pub. Salem, Mass. Vols. 10-11, Boston. Vols. 12- 31, Philadelphia. Vol. 32, Boston. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. The code of nomenclature and check-list of North Ameri- can birds. Adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union. Being the report of the committee of the union on classification and nomenclature. New York, Amer- ican Ornithologists' Union, 1886. iv, 392 pp. 32 cm< First edition. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. Check-list of North American birds prepared by a committee of the American Ornithologists' Union. New York, A.O.U. 1895, 1910. 2 vols. 2d and 3d editions. 2d edition, xi, 372 pp. 23| cm- 3d edition (revised), 430 pp. front, (map). 24 cm- 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 some additional notes by the editor, and an introduc- tory chapter containing a sketch of the author's life; abridged from the original published in Sweden. Lon- don, John van Voorst, 1872. xlviii, 394 pp. front, (map). 3 pi. 23 ANDRE, E. A naturalist in the Guianas. By Eugene Andre. With a preface by Dr. J. Scott Keltic, with 34 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION illus. and a map. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1904. xiv, 310 pp. front. port. 34 illus. map. ANTHONY, ALFRED WEBSTER. Birds of San Pedro Martir, Lower California. By A. W. Anthony. pp. 228-247. 23 cm - APGAR, AUSTIN CRAIG. Pocket key of the birds of the northern United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. By Austin C. Apgar . . . Trenton, N. J., J. L. Murphy, 1893. I p. I., [s]-63 pp. i^ "- ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS, THE. Boston, Lilly & Wait and Carter & Hendee . . . 1831. xvii, 390 pp. illus. in text. ly 011 ' [Library of Entertaining Knowledge.] ASTLEY, HUBERT DELAVAL. My birds in freedom and captivity. By the Rev. Hubert D. Astley. . . . New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. ; London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1901. xvi, 254 pp. illus. (incl. pi.) 23 cm - ATKINSON, JOHN. A compendium of the orni- thology of Great Britain, with a reference to the anatomy and physiology of birds. By John Atkinson. . . . London. Printed for Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1820. vi [ix]-xii, 232 pp. 23' ATKINSON, JOHN. A compendium of the orni- thology of Great Britain, with a reference to the anatomy and physiology of birds. By John Atkinson. London, Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1820. xii, 232 pp. ATKINSON, JOHN CHRISTOPHER. British birds' eggs and nests, popularly described. By Rev. J. C. Atkinson . . . With coloured illustrations by W. S. BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY Coleman. London, New York, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1861. viii, 182 pp. 12 col. pi., fold. tab. in pocket. ATTWATER, H. P. List of birds observed in the vicinity of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. By H. P. Attwater. July, 1892. 230-345 pp. 24" .cm. AUDEBERT, J. B. Histoire naturelle et gnrale des Colibris, Oiseaux-mouches, Jacamars Promerops. By J. B. Audebert et L. P. Vieillot. Paris, Desray, 1802. 2 vols. pi. 34 cm> (Title-page of vol. 2: Histoire naturelle et generate des Grimpereaux et des Oiseaux de paradis.) AUDOUIN, JEAN VICTOR. Audouin's explica- tion sommaire des planches d'oiseaux de 1'Egypte et de la Syrie publiees par Jules-Cesar Savigny. Edited by Alfred Newton . . . London, . . . 1883. vii, 139 pp., 303-456 pp. 22 an - [The Willughby Society.] AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Audubon and his journals. By Maria R. Audubon, with zoological and other notes by Elliot Coues . . . New York, C. Scrib- ner's Sons, 1897. 2 vols. front., illus., 13 pi., 19 port., 12 facsim. 23 cm> AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Audubon MSS. 31 pp. 44 cm< (Containing a letter from M. R. and Flor- ence Audubon, an article on the Wild Turkey, and the Red Phalarope.) AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Audubon's story of his youth. Introduction by Maria R. Audubon. 267- 289 pp. illus. 24| cm - AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. [Journal kept by J. J. Audubon while on a journey through the eastern states JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION and a part of Canada to solicit subscriptions for his "Birds of America," 1840-42.] 100 pp. 24^ cm - (MS. has never been published.) AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. [Autograph manu- script journal or diary, beginning Oct. 12, 1820, and continuing with slight gaps (a few leaves having been cutout) to December 31, 1821.] 201 pp. I illus. 33x2O cm> (This is apparently the first of Audubon's regular and systematic journals.) AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The birds of America, from drawings made during a residence of upwards of 25 years in the United States and its territories. By John James Audubon . . . Prospectus. 2 pp. 28^ cm * AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The birds of America ; from original drawings. By John James Audubon . . . London. Pub. by the author, 1827-38. 4 vols. 435 col. Engr. t.-p. Imprint dates: vol. I, 1827-30; vol. 2, 1831-34; vol. 3, 1 834-35; vol. 4, 1835-38. Plate LXIV drawn from nature by Lucy Audubon. Plates i-n, vi-vn, engr. by W. H. Lizars; retouched by R. Havell, Jr. ; pl. vm-ix engr. by W. H. Lizars; pl. m-v, ci-cv, cvin, ex, engr., printed and coloured by R. Havell, Jr.; pl. x-c, cvi-cvn, cix-cxn-ccccxxxv, engr., printed and coloured by R. Havell. Plates n, vii, dated 1829; pl. cvi-cx, cxn-cxv, dated 1831; pl. CXXXI-CXL., CXLIII-CLV, dated 1832; pl. CLVI- CLXXVII, CLXXIX-CLXXXII, CLXxxiv-CLXxv, dated 1833; pl. CLXXXVI-CXCVII, cxcix, ccn-ccxxxv, dated 1834; pl. CCXXXVI-CCLXXXV, CCLXXXVII, ccLxxxix-ccxc, dated 1835; pl. CCLXXXVI, CCLXXXVIII, ccxci-cccL, dated 1836; pl. CCCLI-CCCC, dated 1837; pl. cccci-ccccxxxv, dated 1838. 8 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY Plate CCLX marked "CCXL." Originally issued in 87 pts. "The plates were published without any text, to avoid the necessity of furnishing copies gratis to the public libraries in England, agreeably to the law of copyright." Sabin, A dictionary of books relating to America, vol. I, P- SIS- Text to accompany the plates was published in 5 vols. rl. 8vo, Edinburgh, 1831-39, under title, "Ornithological biography, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America . . ." Later editions, of text and plates combined, with alterations, were published in 7 and 8 vols., rl. 8vo, under title, "The birds of America, from drawings in the United States and their territories." AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories. New York: J. J. Audubon; Philadelphia, J. B. Chevalier, 1840-44. 7 vols. col. pi. 4. Vols. 6-7: New York, Philadelphia, J. J. Audubon, 1843-44. Original edition. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Letter of John James Audubon describing Harlan's Hawk. 2 pp. MSS. 32 cm- AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The life of John James Audubon the naturalist; ed. by his widow, with an introduction by Jas. Grant Wilson. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1869. 2 pp. I., x, [n 1-443 pp. front, port. 2O cm< AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Ornithological bio- graphy, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America, accompanied by descrip- tions of the objects represented in the work entitled "The birds of America," and interspersed with deline- ations of American scenery and manners. By John James Audubon. Edinburgh, Black, 1831-39. 28| cm< JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION 5 vols. vol. 1-2, Adam Black; vols. 3-4-5, Adam and Charles Black [ . . . printers]. Appendix in vol. 5 with illus. in text. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. A synopsis of the birds of North America. By John James Audubon . . . Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1839. xii, 359, [i] p. AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The quadrupeds of North America. By John James Audubon and the Rev. John Bachman, D.D., etc. New York. Published by V. G. Audubon, 1849-54. 3 vols. 155 col. pi. 27 cm. AUDUBON, JOHN WOODHOUSE. Audubon's western journal, 1840-1850. Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland jour- ney through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. By John W. Audubon, with biographical memoir by his daughter, Maria R. Audubon . . . with folded map, port, and drawings. Cleveland, The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1906. 249 pp. front, port, illus. 25 -cm. BACHMAN, C. L. John Bachman ... the pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Charleston. Charles- ton, S. C., Walker, Evans and Cogswell Co., 1888. 436pp. port. BAIKIE, W. B. Historia naturalis orcadensis. Zool- ogy, Part i (all published), being a catalogue of the mammalia and birds hitherto observed in the Orkney Is. By W. B. Baikie and Robert Heddle. Edinburgh, J. & W. Paterson, 1848. 104 pp. 22| cm< BAILEY, FLORENCE AUGUSTA MERRIAM. Birds of village and field. A bird book for beginners. 10 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY By Florence A. Merriam. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1898. xlix, 406 pp. front., illus. and pi. I9 cm ' BAILEY, FLORENCE AUGUSTA MERRIAM. Handbook of birds of the Western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, lower Rio Grande Valley. By Florence Merriam Bailey; with thirty- three full-page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . . . 3d ed., rev. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. xc, 514 pp. front., illus., plates, map. ig^' BAILEY, HENRY BALCH. Forest and Stream bird notes. An. index and summary of all the orni- thological matter contained in "Forest and Stream," vols. i-xn. Compiled by H. B. Bailey. New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1881. 195 pp. 23 cm> BAILY, WILLIAM L. Our own birds; a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States. By William L. Baily. Rev. and ed. by Edward D. Cope . . . Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869, 1878. x, 11-265 PP- incl. front., illus., plates. iS 001 ' 2 edi- tions. 1869-1878. BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. The birds of North America; the descriptions of species, based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smith- sonian Institution. By Spencer F. Baird . . . with the co-operation of John Cassin . . . and George N. Lawrence. . . . With an atlas of one hundred plates . . . Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1860. 3 pp. I., [iii]-lvi, 1005 pp. and atlas of 100 col. pi. 3O cm - BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. Birds of the boundary. By Spencer Fullerton Baird . . . with ii JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION notes by the naturalists of the survey. 32 pp. 25 col. pi. 29 cm - BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. Birds of the Pacific Railway. By Spencer F. Baird . . . with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. v. p. 30 col. pi. 29 cm - (U.S. War Dept. explora- tions and surveys for a railroad route . . . Wash., 1858.) BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. A history of North American birds. By S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 36 plates and 593 woodcuts. . . . Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1875. 3 vols. illus., plates. 28 C >cm. BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. A history of North American birds. By S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 64 plates and 593 woodcuts . . . Boston, Little, Brown & Co., I 95- 3 vols. illus., plates. 26 C :cm. BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. The published writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882. By George Brown 1 Goode. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1883. xvi, 377 pp. 22| cm - BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. Review of American birds, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. By S. F. Baird. Part I, North and Middle America. Washington, Smithsonian Institu- tion, 1864. iv, 450 pp. 24 an ' Original edition. BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. Review of American birds, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, 1864-1872. 478 pp. Smithsonian Miscel- laneous Collections. 23"' 12 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. ... The water birds of North America. By S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Issued in continuation of the publications of the Geological Survey of California. J. D. Whitney, state geologist. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1884. 2 vols., illus. 28 cm - BAKER, FRANK COLLINS. Notes on the food of birds. By F. C. Baker. [1889.] pp. 266-270. 23 cm - BAKER, T. B. L. An ornithological index, arranged according to the synopsis avium of Mr. Vigors. By T. B. L. Baker. London, . . . 1835. vii, 187 pp. BANGS, OUTRAM. Birds and mammals from Honduras. By Outram Bangs. Cambridge, Mass. Printed for the Museum, July, 1903. pp. 141-159. BANGS, OUTRAM. The Cuban Crab Hawk, Urubitinga gundlachii (Cabanis). By Outram Bangs, [1905.] pp. 307-309- 24 .cm. BANGS, OUTRAM. Notes on birds from Costa Rica and Chiriqui, with descriptions of new forms and new records for Costa Rica. By Outram Bangs, 1906. pp. IO2-II2. BANGS, OUTRAM. On a collection of birds from western Costa Rica. By Outram Bangs, 1907. ("The Auk," vol. xxiv, no. 3, pp. 287-312.) 24 cm< BANGS, OUTRAM. On the Wood Rails, genus Aramides, occurring north of Panama. By Outram Bangs. Boston, Ginn & Co., 1907. pp. 177-187. 13 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION BANGS, OUTRAM. Birds of the Isle of Pines. By Outram Bangs and W. R. Zappey. Boston, U.S.A., Ginn & Co., 1905. pp. 179-215. illus. with photo- graphs and maps in text. 24 cm> BANGS, OUTRAM. The vertebrata of Gorgona Island, Colombia. Introduction, Mammalia. By Outram Bangs. Physical aspect and climate, Fauna. By Wilmot W. Brown, Jr. Aves. By John E. Thayer and Outram Bangs. . . . Reptilia, amphibia. By Thomas Barbour. Cambridge, Mass. Printed for the Museum, June, 1905. pp. 88-102. 33| cm> BARLOW, CHESTER. The story of the Faral- lones. Text by C. Barlow, arranged and published by H. R. Taylor, editor of "The Nidologist " . . . Alameda, Cal., 1897, un-p., illus. with photographs. I3xi8 cm - BARROWS, ANNA. Eggs; facts and fancies about them. Compiled by Anna Barrows. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1890. 159 pp. front., illus. i8| cm< BARROWS, WALTER BRADFORD. Economic ornithology. By Walter B. Barrows. 193-200 pp. 22| cm - n. d., no pub. BARROWS, WALTER BRADFORD. The Eng- lish Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in North America, especially in its relations to agriculture. Prepared under the direction of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, by Walter B. Barrows. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889. 405 pp. map. 23 m< BARROWS, WALTER, BRADFORD. Michigan bird life. A list of all bird species known to occur in the state, together with an outline of their classifica- 14 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY tion and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture. With 70 full-page plates and 152 text figures. By Walter Bradford Barrows, xiv, 822 pp. 70 pi. 152 illus. 24 .cm. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Barton's frag- ments of the natural history of Pennsylvania. Edited by Osbert Salvin . . . London, 1883. xviii, 24 pp. 29 cm> [The Willughby Society.] BARTRAM, JOHN. An account of East Florida, with a journal kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas; upon a jour- ney from St. Augustine up the river St. John's. Lon- don, W. Nicoll & G. Woodfall, 1766. xxii, 90 pp. 2O cm - Introduction by Wm. Stork. BARTRAM, JOHN. A journal kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas, upon a journey from St. Augustine up the river St. John's. With explanatory notes; n. d. viii, 70pp. 20 cm> The introduction to the Journal is signed by Wm. Stork, M.D. First edition. BARTRAM, JOHN. Observations on the inhabit- ants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals,, and other matters worthy of notice, made by Mr. John Bartram in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario, in Canada, to which is annex'd a curious account of the cataracts at Niagra. By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish gentleman who travelled there. London, Whiston and B. White, 1751. viii, 94 pp. folding pi. I9 cm - BARTRAM, JOHN TAVENIER. The cage birds of Bermuda; their management in confinement, breed- 15 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION ing, rearing, feeding, etc. By John Tavenier Bartram. St. George's, Bermuda, 1879. ii, 56 pp. 2i cm< BARTRAM, WILLIAM. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy and the country of the Chactaws ; containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians. Embel- lished with copper plates. Philadelphia, James and Johnson, 1791. xxxiv, 522 pp. front., pi. 2O cm> BARTRAM, WILLIAM. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws, containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians. Embel- lished with copper plates. By William Bartram. Dublin, J. Moore, W. Jones, R. M'Allister and J. Rice, 1793. xxiv, 520 pp. front., illus. 2i cm ' BATES, FRANK AMASA. The game birds of North America; a descriptive check-list. By Frank A. Bates . . . Boston, B. Whidden, 1896. n8pp. front., illus. BATES, HENRY WALTER. The naturalist on the river Amazon. A record of adventures, habits of ani- mals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspect of nature under the equator during eleven years of travel. By Henry Walter Bates. With memoir of the author by Ed. Cloud. Reprint of the unabridged edi- tion, with map and numerous illus. London, John Murray, 1892. Ixxxix, 259 pp. front., port. 24 16 , cm. BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY , BAZIN, EUGENE. Scenes de la nature dans les Etats-Unis et le nord de l'Am6rique. Ouvrage traduit d'Audubon, par Eugene Bazin. Paris, P. Bertrand, 1857. 2 vols. 22 cm j- BEAL, FOSTER ELLENBORQUGH LAS- CELLES. The Blue Jay and its food. (In U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, 1896. Washington, 1897. pp. 197-206. illus.) 23 .cm. BEAL, FOSTER ELLENBOROUGH LAS- CELLES. The Crow Blackbirds and their food. (In U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, 1894. Washing- ton, 1895. pp. 233-248. illus.) 23 ,cm. BEAL, FOSTER ELLENBOROUGH LAS- CELLES. Food of the Bobolink, Blackbirds, and Crackles. By F. E. L. Beal . . . Washington, Gov- ernment Printing Office, 1900. 77 pp. front, map, illus. 23 cm - BEAL, FOSTER ELLENBOROUGH LAS- CELLES. How birds affect the orchard. By F. E. L. Beal . . . [Washington, 1901?] [16] pp. 22^ cm< BECHSTEIN, JOHANN MATTHAUS. 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The zoologist's text- book, embracing the characters of the classes, orders, and genera of almost the whole animal kingdom, . . . By Capt. Thomas Brown ... in two volumes. Illus. by 107 engravings on steel. Glasgow, 1833. 2 vols., illus. i8 cm - BRUNER, LAWRENCE. The birds of Nebraska. By Lawrence Bruner. Lincoln, Neb., 1896. 297 pp. front., port., illus. (Nebraska State Horticultural Society, Annual report, 1896.) BRYAN, WILLIAM ALANSON. Some birds of Molokai. By Alanson Bryan. Honolulu, H. I., Bishop Museum Press, 1908. (Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 133-176.) front., map, illus. BRYANT, HENRY. A list of birds seen at the Ba- hamas from Jan. 20 to May 14, 1859. With descriptions of new or little known species. By Henry Bryant. 1861. 32 pp. 2i| cm - BRYANT, WALTER E. A catalogue of the birds of Lower California, Mexico. By Walter E. Bryant. 33 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION [Cal. Academy of Science.] Dec. 17, 1889. 238-320 pp. BRYANT, WALTER E. Additions to the orni- thology of Guadalupe Island. By Walter E. Bryant. 269-318 pp. 24 cm> BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC, COMTE DE. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. ... A Paris, de 1'imprimerie royale, 1770-74. 3 vols. text = v. I, xxii, 313 pp. vol. 3, 3382 pp. 3 vols. pi., 432 col. pi. 32 m - Under title " Ornithologie," designed by Martinet and colored by hand. All 6 vols. bound by D6rome in fine old red morocco, extra gilt, edges gilt. BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC, COMTE DE. A natural history, general and particular; con- taining the history and theory of the earth, a general history of man, the brute creation, vegetables and minerals. By George Louis Le Clerc, Count of Buffon. Translated by Wm. Smellie. A new edition ... to which is added A history of birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, . . . By Henry Augustus Chambers. London, Thomas Kelly & Co., 1860. 2 vols., col. pi. 28| cm - BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC, COMTE DE. A natural history of the globe, of man, of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects and plants; from the writ- ings of Buffon, Cuvier, Lacepede, and other eminent naturalists, edited by John Wright. A new edition . . . with 500 engravings. Boston. Published by Gray & Brown, 1851. 5 vols. 500 engravings. I7 m ' BULLER, WALTER LAWRY. Notes on the orni- thology of New Zealand. By Walter L. Buller. 1877. 84 pp. i pi. 2 3 c cm - 34 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY DULLER, WALTER LAWRY. . . . Manual of the birds of New Zealand. By Walter L. Buller. Pub- lished by command. New Zealand, . . . Geo. Dids- bury, . . . 1882. ix, 107 pp. front., illus., and pi. BULLER, WALTER LAWRY. A history of the birds of New Zealand. By Walter Lawry Buller. Lon- don, John van Voorst, 1873. xxiii, 384 pp., col. pi., front, (not col.), si ' Second edition. London, pub. by the author, . . . 1888. 2 vols. col. pi. and illus. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Central Park, N. Y. Printed for the Museum, 1881-1901. 14 vols., pi. and woodcuts. 24 cm - BUREAU, LOUIS. De la mue du bee et des orna- ments palpebraux du Macareaux Arctique, Fratercula arctica. Apres la saison des amours. Par le docteur Louis Bureau, 1877. 2 editions. 21 pp. 2 pi. (iv. and v.) 25 cm> 610-616 pp. illus. in text. 22^ cm< BUREAU, LOUIS. Recherches sur la mue du bee des oiseaux de la famille des Mormonids. Par le docteur Louis Bureau. . . . (Extrait du Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 1879.) Paris, F. Savy, 1879. 68 pp. 6 col. pi., map. 25 .cm. BURROUGHS, JOHN. The writings of John Bur- roughs. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. . . . 1904-1908. 15 vols. 2 fronts, (i col.), full page illus. 28 cm * BUTLER, AMOS W. The birds of Indiana. A descriptive catalogue of the birds that have been 35 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION observed within the state, with an account of their habits. By Amos W. Butler. Indianapolis, 1898. 515- II 87 pp. 23 cm - BUTLER, AMOS. Some notes concerning the Even- ing Grosbeak. By Amos Butler, un-p., n. d. 8 pp. BUTLER, ARTHUR G. Birds' eggs of the British Isles. Collated by Arthur G. Butler. With 24 coloured plates (illus. 475 specimens) from drawings by F. W. Frohawk. London, L. Upcott Gill . . . New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. front, (col.), 24 col. pi., vii, 105 pp. 29 cm * BUTLER, ARTHUR G. British birds with their nests and eggs. . . . Illus. by F. W. Frohawk. Brumby & Clarke, Ltd. n. d. 6 vols., col. pi. and other pi. 28 cm - BUTLER, ARTHUR G. Foreign finches in cap- tivity. By Arthur G. Butler. . . . Illus. with 60 pi. by F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S. ; coloured by hand. London, L. Reeve & Co. viii, 332 pp. col. front. 60 col. pi. 33 cm> CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Pro- ceedings. 2d series. San Francisco, 1889-1896. 5 vols. maps. 24^ cm - CALL, RICHARD ELLSWORTH. The life and writings of Rafinesque, prepared for the Filson Club and read at its meeting Monday, April 2, 1824. By Richard Ellsworth Call. Louisville, Kentucky, John P. Morton & Co., 1895. xii, 227 pp. front., port. 30- CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD JAMES. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical 36 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY distribution of the species and popular observations thereon. By Archibald James Campbell . . . With map, 28 coloured plates and 131 photographic illustrations. Sheffield. Printed for the author by Pawson& Brailsford, 1901. xi, 1102 pp. port., pi. (partly col.), map. 26| cm * CAMPBELL, ARTHUR JAMES. Nests and eggs of the Honey-eaters or meliphagous birds of Australia. By A. J. Campbell. Read before the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Jan., 1898. 76pp. 22 cm - CAPEN, ELWIN A. Oology of New England, a description of the eggs, nests and breeding habits of the birds known to breed in New England: with colored illustrations of their eggs. By Elwin A. Capen. Boston, 1886. n6pp. 25col.pl. 34 cm - CARRIKER, M. A., JR. An annotated list of the birds of Costa Rica, including Cocos Island. By M. A. Carriker, Jr., 1910. pp. 314-915. map (at end). 24^- (Reprinted from Annals of the Carnegie Museum, vol. VI, nos. 2-4, 1910.) CARVER, JONATHAN. Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766 and 1768. By John Carver, Esq. . . . Illustrated with copper plates. London. Printed for the author; and sold by J. Walter . . . 1778. xvi, 17-543 pp. front. 3 illus. map. 22 cm< CARVER, JONATHAN. Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. By J. Carver, Esq. . . . Illustrated with copper plates, coloured. The third edition. To which is added some account of the author and a copious index. London: 1781. xvi, 543 pp. 2 maps, pi. (col.). 2i| cm - 37 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION CASSELL'S NATURAL HISTORY. The feathered tribes. New York, Alexander Montgomery, 1854. lv > 632 pp. illus. 29 ..cm. CASSIN, JOHN. Birds, n. p., n. d., pp. 172-206, col. pi. xiv-xxvm. 29 cm - Contents : Order i, Raptores. Order n, Incessores. Order in, Rasores. Order iv, Grallatores. Order v, Natatores. CASSIN, JOHN. Birds. ByJ. Cassin. 171-206 pp. col. pi. xiv-xxvm. 28| cm> no t.-p., n. d. CASSIN, JOHN. Birds: A. Birds collected in Japan. B. Birds collected in China, the Loo Choo Islands, the Islands of Singapore and Ceylon, and on the coast of California, n. p., n. d. 218-248 pp. 6 pi. (col.). 29 cm - CASSIN, JOHN. Descriptions of new species of birds of the genera Selenidera, Gould, and Numida, Linnaeus; and of a new genus and species of Rasoria bird in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. By John Cassin. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v. p. col. pi. 34l cm - CASSIN, JOHN. Illustrations of the birds of Cali- fornia, Texas, Oregon, and British and Russian America. 30 pp. 5 col. pi. CASSIN, JOHN. Descriptions of owls, presumed to be new species, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. By John Cassin. Description of a new rapacious bird, in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1847). By John Cassin. pp. 57-59, and 21-23. 5 col. Pi. M- 38 * BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY CASSIN, JOHN. Illustrations of the birds of Cali- fornia, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. By John Cassin . . . 1853 to 1855. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. viii, 298 pp. 50 col. pi. (incl. front.). 27 cm> . . . Same, 1862. CASSIN, JOHN. Mammalogy and ornithology . . . with folio atlas. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1858. (U.S. Exploring Expedition . . . 1838-1842.) viii, 466 pp. pi. illus. 32| cm - atlas. 56"' CASSIN, JOHN. Sketch of the birds composing the genera Vireo, Viellot, and Vireosylvia, Bonaparte, with a list of the previously known and descriptions of three new species. By John Cassin (Feb. 25, 1851). Descriptions of new species of birds of the genera Galbula and Bucco, Brisson, . . . 1851. Notes on N. A. Falconidae, with descriptions of new species, Feb. 6. 1855. Descriptions and notes on birds in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- adelphia and in the Nat. Mus. Washington, Oct., 1856. Catalogue of the Caprimulgidse in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Nov. 1851. An examination of the birds of the genus Chrysomitris of the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Catalogue of the Hirundinidae in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. By John Cassin, July, 1853. v. p. 4 col. pi. 23 cm> (Proceedings Academy of Natural Science.) CATESBY, MARK. The natural history of Caro- lina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: containing 39 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION the figures of birds, insects, fishes, serpents, and plants; descriptions in English and French. To which is prefixed a new and correct map of the coun- tries with observations on their natural state, inhab- itants and productions. By the late Mark Catesby . . . London, Benjamin White, 1771. 2 vols., col. pi., front, in vol. I, map. 53| cm ' CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds. By Frank M. Chapman. . . . With seventy-five full-page plates and numerous text drawings by Ernest Seton Thomp- son. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1897. xii, 269 pp. front., illus. CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds. By Frank M. Chapman . . . Illustrated by Ernest Seton Thomp- son . . . with seventy-five full-page plates in colors. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1898. xvi, 195 pp. illus., 75 col. pi. 22| cm> CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Bird studies with a camera ; with introductory chapters on the out- fit and methods of the bird photographer. By Frank M. Chapman . . . With over one hundred photo- graphs from nature, by the author. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1900. xiv, 218 pp. front., illus. I9| cm> CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. By Frank M. Chapman . . . With 250 photographs from nature, by the author. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1908. xvi, 432 pp. col. front., illus., col. pi. 23| cm * CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Color key to North American birds. By Frank M. Chapman . . . 40 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY with upward of 800 drawings by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. vi, 312 pp. col. front, illus. (partly col.). 23 cm> CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. The economic value of birds to the state. By Frank M. Chapman. Albany, J. B. Lyon Co., 1903. 66 pp. 12 col. pi. 28 cm - CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Handbook of birds of eastern North America, with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests, and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits . . . By Frank M. Chap- man, with full-page pi. in colors and black and white, and upwards of 150 cuts in the text. Fifth edition. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1898. xiv, 431 pp. front, (col.), illus. i8 cnu CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Handbook of birds of eastern North America, with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature. By Frank M. Chapman . . . with full-page plates in colors and black and white, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and text- cuts, by Tappan Adney and Ernest Thompson Seton. Revised edition. New York and London, D. Appleton and Company, 1912. xxix, 530 pp. col. front. 24 pi. (incl. front.) i some col. i8 cm< CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. Visitors' guide to the local collection of birds in the American Mu- seum of Natural History, New York City. With an annotated list of the birds known to occur within 50 miles of New York City. By Frank M. Chapman, New York, 1894. 100 pp. front, illus. 22 cm - CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. The warblers of North America. By Frank M. Chapman, with JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION cooperation of other ornithologists; with twenty-four full-page colored plates, illustrating every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1907. 3 pp. I., v-ix, 306 pp. 8 pi., 24 col. pi. (incl. front.). 2& m ' CHERRIE, GEORGE K. Notes on Costa Rican birds. By George K. Cherrie. (Proceedings National Museum, 1891.) v. p. 22 cm> CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Transac- tions. Chicago. Published by the Academy, 1867 1869. Vol. i. illus. and pi. (some col.). 29 cm> CLARK, AUSTIN HOBART. Eighteen new species and one new genus from Eastern Asia and the Aleutian Islands. By Austin H. Clark. (U.S. National Museum Proceedings, vol. 32, 1907, pp. 467-475.) 24 cm> CLARK, AUSTIN HOBART. Report on a col- lection of birds made by Pierre Louis Jouy in Korea. By Austin H. Clark. (U.S. Nat. Mus. Proceedings, vol. 38, 1910, pp. 147-176.) 24^ cm - CLARK, AUSTIN HOBART. The birds collected and observed during the cruise of the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross in the North Pacific ocean, and in the Bering, Okhotsk, Japan, and eastern seas, from April to Dec., 1906. By Austin Hobart Clark. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1910. (Proc. of the U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, pp. 25-74. 1910.) CLECKLEY, M. T. In the haunts of the Swain- son's Warbler. With notes on migration, food, song, description of bird, its nest and eggs, etc. Illustrated by photographs of nests and eggs, by Dr. M. T. Cleckley. Augusta, Georgia. 6 pp. illus. 24 cm- 42 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY COATES, HENRY. Audubon, the American orni- thologist. By Henry Coates/ 8 pp. 22 cm - (. . . Proc. of the Perthshire Society of Nat. Sci., 1894 . . . vol. II, pp. xxiv-xxix.) Private copy with autograph letter to Mrs. Elliott Coues. COMSTOCK, J. L. Natural history of birds; with engravings, on a new plan, exhibiting their compara- tive size: adapted to the capacities of youth: with authentic anecdotes, illustrating their habits and char- acters; together with reflections, moral and religious, designed for Sabbath school libraries, families, and common schools. By J. L. Comstock, M.D. Hartford. Published by D. F. Robinson & Co., 1830. 216 pp. front. I9 cm ' COMTE, ACHILLE. Keepsake d'histoire naturelle description des oiseaux suivie d'un exposd de 1'art de les preparer et de les conserver. Classification de Cuvier . . . texte de Buffon. Revis, r6duit et pr6ced d'une introduction par M. Achille Comte . . . Paris, Bazonge-Pigoreau, n. d. xxiii, 512 pp. front. 38 col. _] ,,/rian. pi. 2O 2 CONDOR, continuation of the bulletin of the Cooper ornithological club of California. A bi-monthly magazine of Pacific coast ornithology. 1899. 14 vols. illus. 25| cm> Vol. i, pub. under title of Bulletin of the Cooper O. C. of Cal., at Santa Clara, Cal. Vols. 2, 3, 4, pub. at Santa Clara, Cal. Vols. 5 and 6, Palo Alto, Cal. Vol. 7, no t.-p. Vol. 8, Santa Clara, Cal. Vol. 9, no t.-p. Vols. 10 and n, Hollywood, Cal. COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. The birds of Colorado. By W. W. Cooke . . . Fort Collins, Colo- rado, March, 1897. The Smith Brooks Printing Co., 43 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION Denver. 143 pp. 22 cm> (State Agr. College . . . Bul- letin no. 37.) COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. The birds of Colorado. A second appendix to bulletin no. 37. By W. W. Cooke. Pub. by the Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Col., 1900. pp. 180-239. 23 cm - (The Agr. Exp. Station of the Agr. College of Col., Bulletin 57.) COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. . . . Distri- bution and migration of North American warblers. By Wells W. Cooke . . . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1904. 142 pp. 23 cm - (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin 18.) COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. . . . Distri- bution and migration of North American ducks, geese, and swans. By Wells W. Cooke . . . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1906. 90 pp. 23 cm- (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Biological Survey. Bulletin 26.) COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. Distribution and migration of North American shore birds. By Wells W. Cooke. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1910. 100 pp. 4 pi. 23 cm> (U.S. Dept. of Agri- culture, Biological Survey. Bulletin no. 35.) COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. The migratory movements of birds in relation to the weather. By Wells W. Cooke. pp. 379-390. Map [in text], 23| cm- (U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook, 1910.) COOKE, WELLS WOODBRIDGE. Some new facts about the migration of birds. (In U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, 1903, pp. 371-386. illus. 23 cm> Washington, 1904.) 44 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY COOPER, J. G. Geological survey of California. J. D. Whitney, State Geologist. Ornithology, vol. I, Land birds. Edited by S. F. Baird from the mss. and notes of J. G. Cooper. Published by authority of the Legislature, 1870. xi, 592 pp. illus. in text. COOPER, J. W. Game fowls, their origin and his- tory, with a description of the breeds, strains and crosses. The American and English modes of feeding, training, and heeling; how to breed and cross, ... with a description and treatment of all diseases inci- dent to game fowls. By J. W. Cooper. Standard edi- tion. . . . Dr. J. W. Cooper, West Chester, Pa. (1869). 304 pp. 23 ,cm. CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. Beautiful and curi- ous birds of the world. By Charles B. Cory . . . Bos- ton, Mass. Pub. by the author, 1883. col. plates. 69x54""- 2 pi. for each bird; col. CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian . . . Key to the families and species. By Charles B. Cory . . . Special edition printed for the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 111. Chicago, 1899. 2 vols. illus. 24 cm> CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. The birds of Haiti and San Domingo. By Charles B. Cory. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, U.S.A., 1885. 198 pp. front, (map.), col. pis. 30 cm> CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. ... The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. By Charles B. Cory . . . Chi- cago, 1909. 764 pp. illus. 24^ cm - (Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 131. Zoological series, vol. ix.) Autograph copy. 45 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. Birds of the Bahama Islands; containing many birds new to the Islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species. By Charles B. Cory, illus. Boston. Pub. by author, 1880. 250 pp. front., illus. CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. Birds of the Bahama Islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of winter plumages of North American species. By Charles B. Cory . . . Boston, Riverside edition, Estes & Lauriat, 1890. 250 pp. col. front., 7 col. pi. 27^x2 i| cm< CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. ... The birds of the Leeward Islands, Caribbean Sea. By Charles B. Cory . . . Chicago, 1909. I pi. I., pp. 193-255. front. (map). 24| cm - (Field Museum of Natural History, Publication no. 137. Ornithological series, vol. I, no. 5.) CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. By Charles B. Cory . '. . Boston, 1897. 95 pp. front., illus. CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. How to know the shore birds (Limicolse) of North America (south of Greenland and Alaska), all the species being grouped according to size and color. By Charles B. Cory . . . Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1897. 89 pp. front., illus. 23x18 jcm. CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. Hunting and fish- ing in Florida, including a key to water birds known to occur in the state. By Charles B. Cory . . . Second edition. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1896. 304 pp. front., illus. 23 cm - 46 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. A list of the birds of the West Indies, including the Bahama Islands and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Revised edition. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1886. 34 pp. 31 cm. CORY, CHARLES BARNEY. A naturalist in the Magdalen Islands; giving a description of the islands and list of the birds taken there, with other ornitho- logical notes. By Charles B. Cory. Illustrated from sketches by the author. Boston, 1878. iv pp., II., [7]- 93 pp. front., illus., pi. 20x17' COUES, ELLIOTT. American ornithological bibli- ography. List of the faunal publications relating to North American ornithology. By Dr. Elliott Coues. 4 vols. 22^ cm - vol. 4 British ornithology. (Bull. of the U.S. Geol. and Geog. Survey of the Territories.) COUES, ELLIOTT. Avifauna Columbiana: being a list of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, with the times of arrival and departure of such as are non-resident, and brief notices of habits, etc. . . . Second edition revised to date and . . . rewritten. By Elliott Coues . . . and D. Webster Prentiss . . . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1883. 133 pp. front., illus. 23- (U.S. Na- tional Museum, Bulletin no. 26.) COUES, ELLIOTT. . . . Birds of the Colorado valley . . . scientific and popular information con- cerning North American ornithology. By Elliott Coues. Part first: Passeres to Laniidae, bibliographical appen- dix, seventy illustrations. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1878. xvi, 807 pp. 22| cm - (Depart- ment of the Interior. United States Geographical Sur- vey of the Territories. Miscellaneous publications, no. n.) 47 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION COUES, ELLIOTT. . . . Birds of the northwest: a handbook of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries. By Elliott Coues . . . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1874. xi, 791 pp. 23| cm> (U.S. Geological and Geo- graphical Survey of the Territories. Miscellaneous publications, no. 3.) COUES, ELLIOTT. Check list of North American birds. By Elliott Coues. Salem (Mass.), Naturalists' Agency, 1873. 15 pp. 24.%' Consists of t.-p. and 7 leaves printed and numbered on recto only. COUES, ELLIOTT. Field-notes on birds observed in Dakota and Montana along the forty-ninth parallel during the seasons of 1873 and 1874. By Elliott Coues. PP- 545-661. 23 cm - COUES, ELLIOTT. Field ornithology. Compris- ing a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds ; and a check list of North Ameri- can birds. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A. Salem, Nat- uralists' Agency; New York, Dodd & Mead, 1874. iv, 116, 137 pp. 23 cm - COUES, ELLIOTT. Key to North American birds, containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 wood- cuts. By Elliott Coues. Salem, Naturalists' Agency ; New York, Boston, 1872. 361 pp. illus. 29 cm< COUES, ELLIOTT. Key to the North American birds, containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the conti- nent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, 48 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY inclusive of Greenland and Lower California. With which are incorporated general ornithology: An out- line of the structure and classification of birds; and field ornithology: A manual of collecting, preparing and preserving birds. The fifth edition . . .in two vols. By Elliott Coues. . . . Profusely illus. Boston, Dana Estes & Co., 1903. 2 vols., paged continuously. 24 cm> Vol. i, xii, 535 pp. front, col., 353 fig. and port. Vol. 2, vi, 537-H52 pp. fig. 354-747. COUES, ELLIOTT. List of faunal publications re- lating to British birds. (U.S. Nat. Museum Proceed- ings, vol. 20, pp. 359-482.) 22 cm - COUES, ELLIOTT. On the present status of Passer domesticus in America, with special reference to the western states and territories. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A. pp. 175-193- COUES, ELLIOTT. The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to the headwaters of the Mississippi river, through Louisiana Territory and in New Spain during the years 1805-6-7. New edition ... By Elliott Coues, ... in three volumes. New York, F. P. Harper, 1895. 3 vols. 26| cm - Vol. I, front, port., memoir of author Mississippi voyage. Vol. 2, Arkansas, Mexico. Vol. 3, map and index. COUES, ELLIOTT. Progress of American orni- thology. 1871. pp. 364-373. 23"' (From the "Amer- ican Naturalist," August, 1871.) COUES, ELLIOTT. Natural history. List of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, with the times of arrival and departure of such as are non- residents, and brief notices of habits, etc. By Elliott Coues and D. Webster Prentiss. 400-421 pp. 22| cm> No t.-p., n. d. 49 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION CRAIG, HUGH. The animal kingdom, based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others. Edited by Hugh Craig, with 64 full-page illus. Accurately and beauti- fully executed in colors and tints. New York, Johnson & Bailey [1897]. 2 vols., 64 col. pi. 26 C -cm. CRAWFURD, OSWALD. A year of sport and nat- ural history, shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry, and fishing, with chapters on birds of prey, the nidifica- tion of birds and the habits of British wild birds and animals. Edited by Oswald Crawfurd, with numerous illustrations . . . London, Chapman & Hall, 1895. 331 pp. front. 29 cm - CRAWSHAY, RICHARD. The birds of Tierra del Fuego. By Richard Crawshay . . . London, B. Quaritch, 1907. xl, 158 pp. illus., 23 pi. (incl. front.), 21 col. pi., map. 29 cm - " Three hundred copies of this work have been printed, of which this is no. 85." CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT O. Notes on the nat- ural history of the Strait of Magellan and west coast of Patagonia, made during the voyage of H.M.S. Nassau in the years 1866-69, inclusive. By Robert O. Cunningham. With map and illus. Edinburgh, 1871. 517 pp. front., illus. 2l cm ' CURRIE, ROLLA P. A new Bird of Paradise. By Rolla P. Currie. Descriptions of three new birds from Lower Siam. By Charles W. Richmond, M.D. A flightless Auk, Mancalla californiensis, from the Miocene of California. By Frederic A. Lucas. De- scription of a new bird of the genus Dendrornis. By Charles Richmond, M.D. v. p. 23 50 ,cm. BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY CUVIER, GEORGES LEOPOLD, BARON. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier, with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. London, Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1827- 1834. 1 5 vols. and index, col. pi. 25 cm - CUVIER, GEORGES LEOPOLD, BARON. The animal kingdom, arranged in conformity with its organization. By Baron Cuvier. Translated from the French and abridged for the use of schools, etc., by H. M. Murtrie . . . New York, G.& C. &H. Carvill, 1832. vi, 532 pp. 22$ cm - DARWIN, CHARLES. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, during the years 1832-1836 . . . Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin . . . Part n. Mam- malia. London, Smith, Elder and Co. . . . 1839. v, 97 pp. illus.andcol.pl. 32^' Letter from Charles Darwin to Richard Owen in front of volume. DARWIN, CHARLES. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under command of Captain Fitzroy, during the years 1832 to 1836. Published with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Edited and superintended by Charles Dar- win. London. Published by Elder & Co. . . . 1840- I 843- 5 parts in 3 vols. Illustrated with many plates. 32 cm. DAVENPORT, CHARLES B. Inheritance in 'Ca- naries. By Charles Davenport. Washington, D.C. Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908. 26 pp. 3 col. pi. 26 cm - JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION DAVID, ARMAND, ABBE. Journal d'un voyage dans le centre de la Chine et dans le Thibet oriental, avec Catalogue des oiseaux nouveaux ou incomplete- ment connus, par J. Verreaux; et Remarques sur 1'Ibis Sinensis, par E. Oustalet. 248 pp. 10 col. pi. 33^' (Nouvelles Archives du Museum. Bulletin, vol. 7.) DAVID ARMAND, ABBfi. Les oiseaux de la Chine. Par M. 1'Abbe Armand David et M. E. Oustalet. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessindes et lithographies. Par M. Arnoul, et colorizes au pinceau. Paris, G. Masson, 1877. 2 vols., text and atlas. DAVIDSON, R. O. A new theory of the flight of birds. By R. O. Davidson. Washington, D.C., Henry Polkinhorn, 1858. 28 pp. illus. 2l| cm - DAVIE, OLIVER. Methods in the art of taxidermy. By Oliver Davie ... 90 full-page engravings chiefly drawn by Theodore Jasper . . . the whole containing 500 figures, clearly illustrating the modes of procedure in the art, together with examples of characteristic forms and altitudes of various species of the animal kingdom, including reproductions from photographs of actual work by American taxidermists. Columbus, Hann & Adair; London, H. T. Booth, 1894. xiv, 150, vii, xiii pp. 27 cm * DAVIE, OLIVER. Nests and eggs of North Ameri- can birds. By Oliver Davie. 4th ed., rev. and augm. Introduction by J. Parker Norris. Illustrations by Theodore Jasper . . . and W. Otto Emerson. Col- umbus [O.], Hann & Adair, 1889. 5 pp. I., 455, xii pp. 13 pi. (incl. front.). 23 cm - The first edition was published in 1885 under title: An egg check list of North American birds. 52 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY DAVIE, OLIVER. Nests and eggs of North Ameri- can birds. By Oliver Davie. The fifth edition revised, augmented and illustrated. Part n. Ornithological and oological collecting. (The preparation of skin, nests and eggs for the cabinet.) Columbus, The Lon- don Press, 1898. 509, 18, xvi, pp. front., ill. in text. DAVIE, OLIVER. Reveries and recollections of a naturalist. By Oliver Davie . . . with illus. Colum- bus, 1898. 106 pp. front. 23^ cm * Edition de luxe. DAVIS, C. H. Narrative of the North polar expedi- tion U.S. Ship Polaris, Capt. C. F. Hall commanding. Edited under the direction of the Hon. G. M. Robeson ... by Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, U.S. Naval "Ob- servatory, 1876. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1876. 696 pp. illus. 26| cm - DAWSON, WILLIAM LEON. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. By William Leon Dawson . . . with introduction and analytical keys by Lynds Jones . . . Illustrated by 80 plates in color-photography and more than 200 original half- tones, showing the favorite haunts of the birds, flock- ing, feeding, nesting, etc., from photographs taken by the author and others . . . Columbus, The Wheaton Publishing Co., 1903. xlvii, 674 pp., incl. front., illus. 8ocol.pl. 27 cm - "Original edition, limited to one thousand copies." This copy not numbered. DAWSON, WILLIAM LEON. The birds of Wash- ington ; a complete scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state. By William 53 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION Leon Dawson . . . assisted by John Hooper Bowles. Seattle, The Occidental Publishing Co., 1909. 2 vols. front., illus., plates (partly col.). 33 cm- Paged contin- uously; Vol. I, 4 pp., I., iii-xvii pp., II., 458 pp.; vol. 2, 3 pp. I., iii pp., n., [4591-997 PP- "Of this work in all 'its editions 1250 copies have been printed and the plates destroyed." 15 additional plates by Allan Brooks. Patron's edition. DEARBORN, NED. A preliminary list of the birds of Belknap and Merrimac Counties, New Hampshire, with notes. By Ned Dearborn. Presented to the fac- ulty of the N.H. College of Agr. and the Mechanic Arts as a thesis for the degree of M.S., June, 1898. Durham, N.H., College, 1898. 34 pp. 22 cm - DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. A biological survey of parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Part n . . . Washington, Government Print- ing Office, 1893. 402 pp. front., illus., 14 pi., 5 maps. 23' (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of orni- thology and mammology. North American fauna no. 7.) Part I, not published (1908). DE KAY, JAMES E. Zoology of New York, or the New York fauna, comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appro- priate illustrations. By James E. De Kay. Part n. Birds. Albany, Printed by Carroll & Cook, 1844. xii, 380 pp. 141 col. pi. DELABARRE, E. B. Report of the Brown- Harvard Expedition to Nachrak, Labrador, in the year 1900. By E. B. Delabarre. 1902. pp. 65-212. illus., front., map. 24 cm> (Bulletin of the Geo. Society of Phil., vol. in, no. 4.) 54 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY DELATTRE, M. A. Notes ornithologiques sur les collections rapportees en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, et classification parallelique des passereaux chanteurs, par Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Paris, Mallet-Bache- lier, . . . 1854. 95 pp. ~ DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. Abstract of the proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club of Philadelphia (1890- 1901). v. p. 23 cm - DELAWARE VALLEY CLUB OF PHILADEL- PHIA. Proceedings, 1901-10. 3 vols., illus., maps. 25 m< DESCOURTILZ, J. T. See p. 187. PESFONTAINES, REN LOUICHE. Desfon- taines's m6moire sur quelques nouvelles especes d'oiseaux des c6tes de Barbaric. Edited by Alfred Newton . . . London, 1880. iv, pp. 496-505. pi. x-xvi. 26 cm - [The Willughby Society.] DESMAREST, ANSELME-GAETAN. Histoire naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers. Par Anselme-Gaetan Desmarest; avec figures impri- mis en couleur, d'apres les dessins de Mile. Pauline de Courcelles, 61&ve de Barraband. Paris, 1805. 136 pp. 27 col. pi. 52 cm - DESMAREST, ANSELME-GAETAN. Histoire naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers. Par Anselme-Gaetan Desmarest; avec figures impri- mis en couleur, d'apres les dessins de Mile. Pauline de Courcelles, 61eve de Barraband. Paris, Garnery, . . . Delacheuss6e, . . . 1805. 8 pp. and descriptive text to plates. 2 plates of each bird, I col. 58 cm- DES MURS, O. Iconographie ornithologique. Nouveau recueil general de planches peintes d'oiseaux, 55 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION pour servir de suite et de complement aux planches enluminees de Buffon. Edition en folio et en 4, de rimprimerie royale, 1770, et aux planches coloriees de Mm. Temminck et Laugier de Chartrouse, m6mes formats, accompagn d'un texte raisonne, critique et descriptif. Publi6 par O. Des Murs. A Paris, Fried- rich Klincksiech, 1849. 72 col. pi. 46 cm - DES MURS, O. Oiseaux. Paris, Bertrand, 1855. 98pp. 2ocol.pl. 2i| cm- (Expedition dans les parties centrales de 1'Amerique du Sud . . . sous la direc- tion du Comte Francis de Castelnau. Zoologie.) DEWAR, DOUGLAS. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado. By Douglas Dewar; with nu- merous illustrations from photographs of living birds, by Captain F. D. S. 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London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1890. viii, 352 pp. front., illus. 2i cm ' DIXON, CHARLES. The birds of our rambles, a companion for the country. By Charles Dixon . . . with illus. by A. T. Elwes. London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1891. x, 449 pp. front., illus. 2i cm- DIXON, CHARLES. Curiosities of bird life; an account of the sexual adornments, wonderful display, strange sounds, sweet songs, curious nests, protective and recognitory colours, and extraordinary habits of birds. By Charles Dixon . . . London, G. Redway, 1897. 2 pp. I., [vii]-xii, 322 pp. 2o| cm - DIXON, CHARLES. The game birds and wild fowl of the British Islands, being a handbook for the natu- ralist and sportsman. By Charles Dixon. With illus. by A. T. Elwes, coloured. London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1895. xv, 468 pp. front., col. illus. 23 cm< DIXON, CHARLES. Jottings about birds. By Charles Dixon. With coloured frontispiece by J. Smit. London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1893. iv, 239 pp. front., col. 2i cm< DIXON, CHARLES. Lost and vanishing birds; being a record of some remarkable extinct species and a plea for some threatened forms. By Charles Dixon . . . with ten plates, by Charles Whymper. London, J. Macqueen, 1898. 295 [i] pp. 10 pi. (incl. front.). 57 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION DIXON, CHARLES. The nests and eggs of British birds, when and where to find them; being a hand- book to the oology of the British Islands. By Charles Dixon . . . London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1893. xii, 371 pp. 2i m - DIXON, CHARLES. Our rarer birds; being studies in ornithology and oology. By Charles Dixon; with 70 illus. by Charles Whymper and a frontispiece by J. G. Keulemans. London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1888. xiv, 378 pp. front., 70 illus. 23 cm< DIXON, CHARLES. Rural bird life; being essays on ornithology, with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science. By Charles Dixon; with 45 illus. and a preface, by Elliott Coues. Boston, Estes & Lauriat (1880). xvi, 374 pp. front., illus. 2O cm - DIXON, CHARLES. Rural bird life; being essays on ornithology, with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science. By Charles Dixon; with a frontispiece in colours, and numerous illus. engraved on wood, by G. Pearson. Second edition. London. Longman, Green & Co., 1882. xiv, 374 pp. front., illus. 19 ,.cm. DIXON, CHARLES. Stray feathers from many birds; being leaves from a naturalist's notebook. By Charles Dixon . . . with numerous illus. by Charles Whymper. London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1890. viii, 231 pp. front., illus. 23 cm< DIXON, GEORGE. A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the North-West coast of America: performed in 1785-1788 in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon ... By Capt. George Dixon. London, Geo. Goulding, 1789. xxix, 360, 48 pp. maps and illus. 28 cm> 58 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY DOAN, WILLIAM D. Birds of West Virginia. (In West Virginia Experiment Station Bulletin, no. 3, Dec., 1888, pp. 47-88.) DONOVAN, E. The natural history of British birds; or a selection of the most rare, beautiful, and interesting birds which inhabit this country: the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus; with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornitholo- gists; and illustrated figures. . . . By E. Donovan. In 5 vols. London . . . 1799. 5 vols., col. pi. 24 cm ' DONOVAN, E. The naturalist's repository, or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history: consist- ing of elegantly coloured plates with appropriate scientific and general descriptions of the most curious, scarce, and beautiful productions of nature that have been recently discovered in various parts of the world. . . . 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Contains autograph letter from author in vol. I. DRESSER, HENRY EELES. A history of the birds of Europe, including all the species inhabiting the western palaearctic region. By H. E. Dresser . . . London, The Author, 1871-1881. 8 vols., col. plates. 34 cm Each volume has also special title-page, illus. Issued in parts: pts. 1-13, prepared in collaboration with R. B. Sharpe. DRESSER, HENRY EELES. A manual of pate- arctic birds. By H. E. Dresser . . . London, The author, 1902-03. 2 vols. front, (i col.) 23^ cm ' Paged continuously; pt. I: vii, [7] 498 pp., li; pt. II: [7] 499- 922 pp. DRESSER, HENRY EELES. A monograph of the Coraciidse, or the family of the Rollers. By H. E. Dresser. Pub. by the author at Topelyffe Grange*; Farnborough, R.S.O., Kent, 1893. in pp. 27 col. pi. 40 cm - DRESSER, HENRY EELES. A monograph of the Meropida^, or family of the Bee-eaters. By H. E. Dresser. London. Published by the author . . . 1884-1886. xix, 144 pp., col. pi. DRESSER, HENRY EELES. On certain species of Aquila. By H. E. Dresser (1873). Monograph of the Genus Saxicola. By W. T. Blanford and H. E. Dresser [etc.] . . . n. d. v. p. 4 col. pi. 23 cm> 60 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY DUGMORE, A. RADCLYFFE. Bird homes. The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breed- ing in the eastern United States, with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Illus. with photographs from nature, by the author. New York, Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. xvi, 183 pp. pi. front., illus. (some col.). 26 cm - DUGMORE, A. RADCLYFFE. Camera adven- tures in the African wilds; being an account of a four months' expedition in British East Africa, for the pur- pose of securing photographs of the game from life. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore, with 140 photographs from life, by the author. New York. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910. xix, 233 pp. front., many photographs. DUNCAN, T. C. Ostrich farming in America. By J. C. Duncan, M.D., Ph.D. (1888). Pp. 685-702, front, and illus. 22| cm ' (Report on ostrich farming, U.S. Dept. of Agr., 1888.) DURY, CHARLES. Papers on the destruction of native birds. By Chas. Dury. From Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Nat. Hist., 1886. No t.-p., 179- 224 pp. 22 cm> DUTCHER, BASIL HICKS. Bird notes from Little Gull Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y. By Basil Hicks Dutcher. Bird notes from Long Island, New York. By William Dutcher. 126-139 pp. 2 4 m ' (From "The Auk," vol. vi, no. 2, April, 1889.) DUTCHER, WILLIAM. A contribution to the life history of the Herring Gull (Larus Argentatus) in the United States. By William Dutcher and William L. Bailey, pp. 418-431, pi. xxi and xxn. 22| cm - (From "The Auk," vol. xx, Oct., 1903.) 6l JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION DWIGHT, JONATHAN, JR. Index to the bulle- tin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, volumes i-vm, 1876-1883, and its continuation "The Auk," volumes l-xvii, 1884-1900. Compiled by a committee of the American Ornithologists' Union, edited by Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M.D. New York, 1907. viii, 426 pp. 24' cm. DWIGHT, JONATHAN, JR. The Ipswich spar- row (Ammodramus princeps Maynard) and its sum- mer home. By Jonathan Dwight, Jr. With a colored plate. Cambridge, Mass. Pub. by the Club, August, i895- 5 6 pp., col. front. 27- (Memoirs of the Nut- tall Ornithological Club, no. n.) DWIGHT, JONATHAN, JR. The sequence of plumages and moults of the Passerine birds of New York. By Jonathan Dwight, Jr. (March, 1899.) pp. 73-360. 7 pi. 24 cm ,' No t.-p. EATON, ELON HOWARD. Birds of New York. By Elon Howard Eaton. Albany, Univ. of the State of New York, 1910. 501 pp., 42 col. pi. so ' (New York State Museum, Memoir 12.) ECKSTORM, MRS. FANNIE (HARDY). The woodpeckers. By Fannie Hardy Eckstorm . . . Bos- ton and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. 4 pp. i., 131, [i] p. col. front., illus., col. plates. EDWARDS, GEORGE. A discourse on the emi- gration of British birds; or this question at last solved: Whence came the stork . . . containing a curious, particular and circumstantial account of the respective retreats of all those birds of passage, . . . also a copi- ous, entertaining, and satisfactory relation of winter birds of passage ... By a naturalist. London, J. Walker, 1795. xv, 64 pp. 2i| cm> 62 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY EDWARDS, GEORGE. A natural history of un- common birds and some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupeds, reptiles, fishes, insects, etc.; exhibited in 362 copper plates from designs copied immediately from nature and curiously coloured after life, with a full and accurate description of each figure : to which is added a brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours, with instructions for etching on copper with aqua-fortis; likewise some thoughts on the passage of birds and additions to many of the subjects described in this work: in 7 parts. Lon- don. Printed for the author at the College of Physi- cians [1743-1746]. 7vols.362col.pl. so ' Paged con- tinuously. Added t.-p. for vol. I and t.-p. for vols. 2-4 read, with minor changes: A natural history of birds, most of which have not been figur'd or described. t.-p. for vols. 5-7 reads: Gleanings of natural history . . . ; t.-p. also given in French and the text in French and English. Same. t.-p. of vol. I. gives 210 plates, and 4 parts. Same as copy 2. Bound in 4 vols. Vol. 4 contains Illustrations of Natural History, by Peter Brown. EDWARDS, GEORGE. Verzameling van Uit- landsche en Zeldzaame Vogelen, benevens eenige vreemde dieren en Plantgewassen : in 't Engelsch naauwkeurig beschreeven en naar 't leven met Kleuren afgebeeld, door G. Edwards en M. Catesby: Vervol- gens, ten opzigt van de Plaaten merkelyk verbeterd, in 't Hoogduitsch uitgeven door . . . M. Houttuyn, Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan, Sepp. 1752-1781. 3 vols. 100 col. pi. 43 cm - Issued in 10 parts. Very rare. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. Catalogue of a collection of birds obtained by the expedition into 63 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION Somaliland. By D. G. Elliot, C. B. Cory, Curator of Dept. Chicago, U.S.A., Feb., 1897. (East Africa collection of birds.) 29-67 pp. 25 cm> ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys ... by Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . with forty-six plates. London, Suckling & Co., 1897. xviii, 220 pp., n. 46 pi. (incl. front.), col. chart. 2i cm * ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A monograph of the Bucerotidse, or family of the Hornbills. By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . [London.] Published for the sub- scribers by the author [printed by Taylor and Francis], 1882. xxxii, [117] pp. 59 (i.e., 60) pi. (partly col.). 39 cm Originally issued in 10 pts., 1877-82. "Anorrhinus austeni" (pi. 44), mentioned in contents, is not figured, as no specimens are obtainable. Original edition. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A monograph of the Paradiseidse, or Birds of Paradise. By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . [London.] For the subscribers, by the author, 1873. xxxii, [90] pp. 37 col. pi. The descriptive text accompanying the plates is sepa- rately paged (1-3 pages to each plate). Single pages are unnumbered. Hand-colored plates. The first plate is not colored. Original edition. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A monograph of the Phasianidae, or family of the Pheasants. By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . New York, The author, 1872. 2 vols. 8 1 pi. (79 col.). 61**' Issued in six parts, 1870-72. The rarest and finest of all Elliot's ornithological works. Original edition. 64 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A monograph of the Pittidse, or family of Ant Thrushes. By Daniel Giraud . . . New York, D. Appleton& Co., 1863. 99 (2) pp. front., col. pi. SSI 00 ' Original edition. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A monograph of the Pittidae, or family of Ant Thrushes. By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . London, Bernard Quaritch, 15 Picca- dilly, W., 1893-1895. 99 (2) pp. 50 col. pi. 55 cm< Plates, with preface, introduction, and descriptive text. Original edition. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A monograph of the Tetraoninae, or family of the Grouse. By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . New York, The author, 1865. 10 pp. i., [40] pp. 27 col. pi. 6o cm ' Published in five parts, 1864-65. Each plate accompa- nied by from one to three pages of descriptive letterpress. Original edition. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . . . By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . With seventy-four plates. New York, F. P. Harper, 1895. xvi, 17-268 pp., illus., 71 pi. (incl. front.). 2i cm - First edition. ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. 1 The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions; or, The Swan, Geese, Ducks, and Mergansers of North America . . . By Daniel Giraud Elliot . . . with sixty-three plates. 1 See page 187. 65 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION New York, F. P. Harper, 1898. xxii, 19-316 pp. front, port., 63 pi. 2i cm - First edition. ELROD, M. J. Birds in their relation to agriculture. The wealth of Montana as shown by statistics. By Morton J. Elrod. University of Montana, Missoula, Mont. 1904. pp. 173-190 and 197-208. 8 pi. 22^ cm - (Reprint from 2d Annual Report, Mont. State Board of Farmers' Institutes.) ESSEX INSTITUTE. Bulletin. Salem, Mass., Essex Institute Press, 1870-98. 15 vols., illus. 22| crt - EVANS, ARTHUR HUMBLE. Birds. By A. H. Evans . . . London, New York, Macmillan and Co., limited, 1900. xvi, 635 pp. front, (fold, map), illus. 23S (Half-title : The Cambridge natural history, ed. by S. F. Harmer . . . and A. E. Shipley . . . vol. ix.) EVANS, ARTHUR HUMBLE. Turner on birds: a short history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Dr. William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes and appendix, by A. H. Evans, M.A. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1903. xviii, 223 pp. 23 cm- Latin on left-hand page, English on right. EYTON, THOMAS CAMPBELL. A history of the rarer British birds. By T. C. Eyton . . . London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman [etc.], 1836. vi pp., H., 101 pp., illus. 22 cm - Title vignette. FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. Parts 1-7. (Bos- ton Society of Natural History. Occasional Papers, vol. 7.) Boston, 1904-1906. n. p. 66 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY FAXON, WALTER. Brewster's Warbler. By Walter Faxon. With one plate. Cambridge, U.S.A. Printed for the Museum, Jan., 1911. Pp. 57-78. I col. pi. 32 cm - [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vol. XL, no. 2.] FAXON, WALTER. The birds of Berkshire County, Mass. 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Edited by Philip Lutley Sclater, . . . London, 1882. iv, 53 pp. 22f cm - [The Willughby Society.] FORSTER, JOHN REINHOLD. Forster's Cata- logue of the animals of North America, or Faunula Americana. Edited by Philip Lutley Sclater . . . London, 1882. iv, 43 pp. I pi. 23 cm> [The Willughby Society.] FORSTER, JOHN REINHQLD. Indian Zoology, second edition. London. Printed by Henry Hughs for Robert Faulder, 1790. viii, 161 pp. 16 pi. 26 cm - 70 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY FORSTER, THOMAS. Observations of the natural history of the Swallow tribe ; with collateral statement of facts relative to their migration and to their brumal torpidity, and a copious table of reference to authors. Illustrated by figures of 5 species, engraved on wood by Willis. To which is added a general catalogue of British birds. By Thomas Forster. London . . . 1817. xiv, 97 pp. illus. FOSTER, L. S. A consideration of some ornitho- logical literature, with extracts from current criticism. I, 1876 to 1883. n, 1884 to 1893. 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THAYER COLLECTION GADOW, HANS. Through Southern Mexico; being an account of the travels of a naturalist. By Hans Gadow. With over 160 full-page and other illus. and maps. London, Witherby & Co.; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. xvi, 527 pp. front., 160 full- page and other illus. GAMBEL, WILLIAM. Remarks on the birds observed in Upper California, with descriptions of new species. By William Gambel. pp. 25-26. 2 col. pi. 33 cm " GATKE, HEINRICH. Heligoland as an ornitho- logical observatory ; the result of fifty years' experience. By Heinrich Gatke . . . tr. by R. Rosenstock . . . Edinburgh, D. Douglas, 1895. x pp., n., 599 pp. front., illus., port. GENTRY, THOMAS GEORGE. Life-histories of the birds of eastern Pennsylvania. By Thomas G. Gentry . . . Philadelphia. Pub. by the author, 1876- 77. 2 vols. 2o| cm- Vol. 2 has imprint: Salem, Mass., The Naturalists' Agency, 1877. GENTRY, THOMAS GEORGE. Nests and eggs of birds of the United States ... By Thomas G. Gentry . . . Philadelphia, J. A. Wagenseller, 1882. x, 300 pp. front, port., I. (i.e. 54) col. pi. GENTRY, THOMAS GEORGE. The House- Sparrow at home and abroad, with some concluding remarks upon its usefulness, and copious references to the literature of the subject. By Thomas G. Gentry. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelinger. 1878. l-vi, 128 pp. front. 23' GERARDIN, SfeBASTIEN. Tableau 61ementaire d'ornithologie 1'histoire naturelle des oiseaux que Ton 72 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY rencontre communement en France . . . Par Sebas- tien Gerardin. Paris, G e Dufour et E. d'Ocagne . . . 1822. 2 Vols. 22 cm> GERARDIN, S&BASTIEN. Recueil de planches du tableau 616mentaire d'ornithologie, ou histoire naturelle des oiseaux que Ton rencontre commune- ment en France: Prec6d6 d'un trait6 sur la maniere naturelle, . . . Par Sebastien Gerardin (DeMirecourt). Paris, G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne. Amsterdam, G. Dufour et Compagnie, 1822. 144 pp. 41 pi. 30"- GERINI, GIOVANNI. Storia naturale deliguccelli trattata con metodo e adornata de figure intagliate in Rame e miniate al naturale. . . . Firenze, 1767-1776. 5 vols., t.-p. in Italian and Latin. 599 col. pi. GIBBS, MORRIS. Annotated list of the birds of Michigan. By Dr. Morris Gibbs. 1879. pp. 481-497. 22 cm< (U.S. Geol. Survey, Bulletin.) GIEBEL, C. G. The saurus Ornithologiae. Reper- torium der gesammten Ornithologischen literatur und Nomenclator Sammtlicher gattungen und arten der vogel nebst synonymen und geographischer verbrei- tung. Von Dr. C. G. Giebel. Leipzig, 1872-1877. 6 vols. 25 cm - GILLISS, J. M. The U.S. naval astronomical expe- dition to the Southern hemisphere during the years 1849-50-51-52, Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, superintendent. Chile: its geography, climate, [etc.]. By Lieut. J. M. Gilliss. Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, 1855. 2 vols. illus. and maps, so *' GIRAUD, JACOB P., JR. The birds of Long Island. By J. P. Giraud, Jr. New York, Wiley & Putnam, 1844. xxi, 397 pp., col. pi. 73 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION GIRAUD, JACOB P., JR. A description of 16 new species of N.A. birds, described in the annals of the New York Lyceum of Nat. Hist. By Jacob P. Giraud, Jr., collected in Texas, 1838. New York, Geo. F. Nesbitt, 1841. col. pi. with des. text. 45 -cm. GMELIN, JO. FRID. Caroli a Linn6 equitis aurati de stella polari, . . . Systema Natufae per regna tria naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin, Lepsiae, Georg. Emanuel. Beer, 1788. 7 vols. 22| cm - Vol. I, 7 pts. vol. n, 2 pts. vol. HI, i pt. GODMAN, FREDERICK DU CANE. A mono- graph of the Petrels (order Tubinares). By Frederick du Cane Godman. . . . With hand-colored plates, by J. G. Keulemans. Witherby & Co., London, 1907- 1910. 2 vols. (2 parts), 381 pp. 103 col. pi. 34 Paged continuously. GODMAN, FREDERICK DU CANE. Natural history of the Azores, or, Western Islands. By Fred- erick du Cane Godman. London, John van Voorst, 1870. v, 358 pp. front, map. 23 ,cm. GODMAN, JOHN D. American natural history. By John D. Godman. Second edition. Philadelphia, Key & Michkie, 1831. 3 vols. 22| cm> GODMAN, JOHN D. Rambles of a naturalist. By John D. Godman, M.D., to which are added reminis- cences of a voyage to India, by Reynell Coates, M.D. Philadelphia, Thomas T. Ash, Key and Biddle, 1833. 151 pp. 18"*' GOLDI, EMIL AUGUST. Against the destruction of White Herons and Red Ibises on the lower Amazon, 74 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY especially on the island of Maraj6. Two memorials presented in 1895 and 1896 to His Excellency the governor of the state of Para and the Legislature. By Prof. Dr. Emil A. Goldi . . . Second ed. Tr. from the Portuguese into English. by Mr. Wm. H. Clifford. Para, Brazil, 1904. Second edition. 20 pp. GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. A history of the earth and animated nature. By Oliver Goldsmith, with numerous notes from the works of the most distin- guished British and foreign naturalists. Blackie & Son . . . London, 1855. 2 vols. front, ports., illus. and pi. 24| cm> 2 t.-p., I col. GOODE, GEORGE BROWN. Bibliography of the published writings of Philip Lutley Sclater, F.R.S., Secretary of the Zoological Society of London. Pre- pared under the direction of G. Brown Goode. Wash- ington, Government Printing Office, 1896. xix, 135 pp. front, port. 2& m ' GOSS, N. S. History of the birds of Kansas. By N. S. Goss. Illustrating 529 birds. Topeka, Kansas, Geo. W. Crane & Co., 1891. 692 pp. 35 pi. 26 cm> GOSS, N. S. A revised catalogue of the birds of Kansas, with descriptive notes of the nests and eggs of the birds known to breed in the state. By N. S. Goss . . . Topeka, Kansas, publishing house of T. D. Thacher, State Printer, 1886. iv, 76 pp. 24 cm - GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY. The birds of Jamaica. 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(some col.). 2O cm< GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse, assisted by Richard Hill. London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longman, 1851. xxiv, 508 pp. front., 6 col. pi. 2O cm- GOULD, AUGUSTUS A. Report of the inverte- brata of Massachusetts comprising the Mollusca, Crus- tacea, Annelida and Radiata, published agreeably to an order of the legislature by the commissioners on the zoological and botanical survey of the state. Cam- bridge, 1841. xiii, 373 pp. 213 fig. on 15 pi. 23 cm - GOULD, JOHN. The birds of Asia. By John Gould . . . London. Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1850-83. 7 vols. 530 col. pi. 56| cm> Completed after the author's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. 76 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY GOULD, JOHN. The birds of Europe. By John Gould . . . London. Printed by R. and J. E. Taylor, pub. by the author, 1837. 5 vols. 449 col. pi. 56"*- Issued in parts, 1832-37. Plates drawn from life and on stone by J. and E. Gould and E. Lear. Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. GOULD, JOHN. The birds of Great Britain. By John Gould, F.R.S., etc. . . . London. Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1873. 5 vols., col. pi. 56| cm> 376 pi. (colored by hand), with introduc- tion and accompanying letterpress; issued in 25 parts, 1862-73. GOULD, JOHN. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. By John Gould. Completed after the author's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875-88. 5 vols., col. pi. 56| cm> GOULD, JOHN. A century of birds from the Him- alaya Mountains. By John Gould. London, 1832. 56 cm< Two copies, each 80 col. pi. I without text and mss. list of pi. 2 pi. with descriptive text. PI. drawn from nature by E. Gould. This is the first of Gould's great folio of birds and is the scarcest of them. GOULD, JOHN. An introduction to the birds of Australia. By John Gould. London. Printed for the author by Richard and John E. Taylor . . . 1848. viii, 134 pp. 22| cm - GOULD, JOHN. Handbook to the birds of Aus- tralia. By John Gould. In two volumes. London. Published by the author . . . 1865. 2 vols. 25| cm< 77 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION GOULD, JOHN. An introduction to the birds of Great Britain. By John Gould. London. Printed for the author by Taylor and Francis . . . 1873. iv, 135 pp. 22 cm - GOULD, JOHN. An introduction to the Trochilidae or family of Hummingbirds. By John Gould. London. Printed for the author by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1861. iv, 216 pp. 23 m - GOULD, JOHN. A monograph of the Odonto- phorinae, or Partridges of America. By John Gould . . . London. Published by the author, 1850. 4 pp., I., [ii]-23 pp. 33 I. 32 col. pi. 56^- A few of the leaves are printed on both sides. GOULD, JOHN. Monograph of the Pittidae. By John Gould . . . Part I . . . London. Pub. by the author, 1880. Cover-title, 10, I., 10 col. pi. 57 cm- No more published. "The illustrations are principally taken from the author's works on the 'Birds of Asia,' 'Australia,' and 'New Guinea.'" Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. GOULD, JOHN. A monograph of the Ramphas- tidae, or family of Toucans. By John Gould . . . Lon- don. Published by the author, 1854. 3 PP- x - [9l~ 2 6 pp. 54 i. 52 pi. (51 col.). 56| cm ' A few of the leaves are printed on both sides. GOULD, JOHN. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of Hummingbirds. By John Gould . . . London, The author, 1861. 5 vols. 360 col. pi. 56 cm> Plates with preface, introduction, and accompanying letterpress. Originally issued in 25 parts, 1849-61. Supplement. Completed after the author's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe . . . London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1887. I vol., col. pi. and descriptive text. 56 cm - 78 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY GOULD, JOHN. A monograph of the Trogonidze, or family of Trogons. By John Gould. Second ed. London. Printed by Taylor and Francis . . . pub- lished by the author . . . 1875. xx pp. 46 pi. with descriptive text. 56| cm ' GOULD, JOHN. A synopsis of the birds of Aus- tralia, and the adjacent islands. By John Gould . . . London. Published by the author, 1837-38. 4 vols. (4 parts), col. pi. 30- GRAHAME, JAMES. The birds of Scotland, with other poems. By James Grahame. Philadelphia. Pub. by S. F. Bradford, 1807. 103 pp. I9 cm - GRANT, JOHN B. Our common birds and how to know them. By John B. Grant; with sixty-four plates. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1891. 216 pp., incl. pi. I4X20 cm ' GRANT, W. R. OGILVIE. Bird notes. Second list of the birds collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago [London, March 6, 1887]. On the genus Platalea, with a description of a new species from New Guinea. From the "Ibis," Jan., 1889. On the genus Turnix. ["Ibis "for Oct., 1889]. Notes on Turnix beccarii, Salvador! (July, 1890). Notes on some birds obtained at Madeira, Deserta Grange, and Porto Santo (Oct., 1890). On some new Francolins and a new Hornbill discovered by Mr. F. J. Jackson in East Africa (Jan., 1891). ... A short review of the Francolins belonging to the gen- era Francolinus and Pternistes (Jan., 1892). On the Gallinaceous genera Bambusicola and Arboricola (July, 1892). Notes on Pigeons collected by Mr. A. H. Everett in Mantanani and Banguey, off the North- west coast of Borneo (Oct., 1888), etc. v. p., illus., col. pi. 23 cm - 79 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION GRANT, W. R. OGILVE. A hand-book to the game birds. By W. R. Ogilve Grant. London, Edward Lloyd, limited, 1896-97. 2 vols., col. front., illus. 42 col. pi. i8 cm> GRAVES, GEORGE. British ornithology: being the history with a coloured representation of every known species of British birds. By George Graves. London. Printed for the author. Sherwood, Neeley & Jones, 1811-13. 2 vols., col. pi. 22| cm> First edition (scarce). GRAVES, GEORGE. British ornithology: being the history with a coloured representation of every known species of British birds. By George Graves, assisted by several eminent ornithologists. London . . . Sherwood, Neeley and Jones, 1811-21. 3 vols., col. pi. 25 cm - GRAVES, GEORGE. The naturalist's pocket- book, or, tourist's companion : being a brief introduc- tion to the different branches of natural history, with approved methods for collecting and preserving the various productions of nature. By George Graves . . . London. Printed by W. and S. Graves. . . . in, 335. front, (col.). 22 cm - GRAVES, GEORGE. Ovarium britannicum; being a correct delineation of the eggs of such birds as are .natives of, or domesticated in, Great Britain. By George Graves. London. Printed for the author, and sold by Sherwood, Neeley & Jones [etc.], 1816. vi pp., col. front., 14 col. pi. 23"' GRAY, GEORGE ROBERT. Catalogue of British birds in the collection of the British Museum. By George Robert Gray. London. Printed by order of the trustees, 1863. xii, 247 pp. 23 cm - 80 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY GRAY, GEORGE ROBERT. Fasciculus of the birds of China. By G. R. Gray, 1871. (With 12 hand- coloured plates by Wm. Swainson.) 8 pp. 12 col. pi. 33"*' GRAY, GEORGE ROBERT. The genera of birds: comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of the genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera. By George Robert Gray . . . Illustrated by David William Mitchell . . . 1844-49. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Long- man, 1849. 3 vols., 334 pi. (partly fold., 185 col.), incl. front. 38^' Originally issued in parts, 1844-49. GRAY, GEORGE ROBERT. Hand-list of genera and species of birds, distinguishing those contained in the British Museum. By G. R. Gray. London, 1869- 1871. 3 vols., 3 parts. 22^ cm - GRAY, GEORGE ROBERT. A List of the genera of birds, with their synonyma and an indication of the typical species of each genus. By George Robert Gray. Second edition . . . London . . . Richard & John E. Taylor, 1841. xii, 115 pp. GRAY, ROBERT. The birds of the west of Scot- land, including the outer Hebrides, with occasional records of the occurrence of the rarer species through- out Scotland generally. By Robert Gray. Glasgow, Thomas Murray & Son, 1871. x, 520 pp. front., illus. GREELY, ADOLPHUS W. International polar expedition. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. Grinnell Land. By Adolphus W. Greely, . . . Washington, 81 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION Government Printing Office, 1888. 2 vols. illus., pi., maps, charts. 30***' GREELY, ADOLPHUS W. Three years of Arctic service; an account of the Lady Franklin Bay expedi- tion of 1881-84 and the attainment of the farthest north. By Adolphus W. Greely. With over 100 illus. made from photographs taken by the party, and origi- nal drawings, and with the official maps and charts. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 2 vols. front., illus., maps. 24 cm> GREENE, WILLIAM THOMAS. Birds I have kept in years gone by, with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully. By W. T. Greene. London, L. Upcott Gill, 1885. viii, 198 pp., col. front, if- GREENE, WILLIAM THOMAS. Birds of the British Empire. By W. T. Greene. London, The Im- perial Press, ltd., 1898. 360 pp., illus. 23 cm> GREENE, WILLIAM THOMAS. Parrots in cap- tivity. By W. T. Greene . . . with notes on several species by the Hon. and Rev. F. G. Dutton . . . Lon- don, G. Bell and Sons, 1884-87. 3 vols. col. front., col. plates. GREW, NEHEMJAH. Catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College, made by Nehemjah Grew, M.D. . . . Whereunto is subjoined the comparative anatomy of stomach and guts, by the same author. London. Printed by W. Rawlins, for the author, 1681. 43 pp., 31 pi. 32- GRIEVE, SYMINGTON. The Great Auk, or Garefowl (Alca impennis, Linn.), its history, archae- 82 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY ology, and remains. By Symington Grieve . . . Lon- don, T. C. Jack [etc., etc.], 1885. x pp., n., 141 pp., n., 58 pp., incl. front., illus. 3 pi. (2 col.), fold. map. 29 cm> Two copies, same edition, but one has 3 pi. (2 col.), while the other has no pis. GRIEVE, SYMINGTON. Supplementary note on the Great Auk, or Garefowl (Alca impennis, Linn.). By Mr. Symington Grieve (read March 24, 1897). pp. 237-340. 5 pi., front, port. 22 cm> GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD. American duck shooting. By George Bird Grinnell . . . with 58 port, of North American swans, geese and ducks, by Edwin Shepard, and numerous vignettes in the text, by Wil- mont Townsend. New York, Forest & Stream Pub. Co. [1901]. 623 pp. front., illus. 22 cm> GRINNELL, JOSEPH. Birds of the 1908 Alex- ander Alaska expedition, with a note on the avifaunal relationships of the Prince William Sound district. By Joseph Grinnell. 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A hand-book of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British Islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants. By J. E. Harting. New and revised edition. With 35 col. pi., carefully reproduced from original drawings by the late Prof. Schlegel, London. London. John C. Nimmo, 1901. xxxi, 520 pp. front, (col.), col. pi. 23 cm- Title-page in red and black. HARTING, JAMES EDMUND. Hints on shore shooting; with a chapter on skinning and preserving birds. By James Edmund Harting. London, John van Voorst, 1871. 88 pp. front. I9 cm - HARTING, JAMES EDMUND. Our summer migrants. An account of the migratory birds which pass the summer in the British Islands. By J. E. Harting . . . 2d ed. Illustrated from designs by Thomas Bewick. London, Bickers and Son, 1877. x, 336 pp., illus. 22 cm - HARTT, CH. FRED. Thayer Expedition. Scien- tific results of a journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz . . . Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil. By Ch. 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A vertebrate fauna of Scotland. By J. A. Harvie-Brown. Tay Basin and Strathmore, by J. A. Harvie-Brown. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1906. Ixxxvi, 377 pp. illus., map. 23 cm- 2d t.-p., no illus. HATCH, P. L. . . . Notes on the birds of Minnesota. By Dr. P. L. Hatch . . . June, 1892. Minneapolis, Harrison & Smith, 1892. 487 pp. 24 cm - (The geologi- cal and natural history survey of Minnesota. First report of the State Zoologist. . . .) HAWKESWORTH, JOHN. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Maj- esty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemi- 87 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION sphere, and successively performed by Com. Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, and Capt. Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour; drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several com- manders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks. By John Hawkesworth. In 3 volumes, illus. with cuts, charts, .maps. London, W. Strahan & T. 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THAYER COLLECTION of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and col- oured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, and number of eggs. By William C. Hewitson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Published for the author, n. d. 2 vols., XXVI-CLXIX col.pl. HEWITSON, WILLIAM C. British oology; being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and col- oured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nest, number of eggs, etc. By William C. Hewitson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Published for the author, n. d. 3 vols. 169 col. pi. HIRST, HENRY B. The book of cage birds. By Henry B. Hirst. Third edition. Philadelphia, Bernard Duke, 1843. 278 pp. 20 cm - HITCHCOCK, EDWARD. Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of Massachusetts, in four parts . . . illus. by numerous woodcuts and an atlas of plates. By Edward Hitchcock. Amherst, J. S. & C. 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Birds'-nesting : a hand- book of instruction in gathering and preserving the nests and eggs of birds for the purposes of study. By Ernest Ingersoll. Boston, Bradlee Whidden, 1895. xi pp., ii., no pp. 2i cm> INTERNATIONAL ORNITHOLOGICAL CON- GRESS. Proceedings of the fourth International Orni- thological Congress, London, June, 1905; forming vol. 14 of theOrnis;ed. . . . by E. J. O. Hartertand J. L. Bonhote. London, Dulau, 1907. 696 pp.; pi.; illus. INTERNATIONAL POLAR EXPEDITION. Re- port of the International Polar expedition to Point 94 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY Barrow, Alaska, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of Dec. n, 1884. Washing- ton . . . 1885. 695 pp. front., pi. (partly col.). 3<> cm * IRBY, L. HOWARD. The ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar. By Lieut.-Col. L. Howard Irby. London, R. H. Porter, 1875. 236 pp. front. I map. IRBY, L. HOWARD. The ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar. By Lieut.-Col. L. Howard Irby. Second edition. . . . 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The natural history of birds: a popular introduction to ornithology. By Thomas Rymer Jones . . . with 220 illus. London, Frederick Ware & Co., . . . New York, Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, xx, 452 pp. front., 220 illus. JOSSELYN, JOHN. New England's rarities dis- covered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. By John Josselyn. With an introduc- tion and notes, by Edward Tuckerman. Boston, William Veazie, 1864. viii, 169 pp. 26 cm> JOURNAL OF THE STRAITS BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. Published half- yearly. Singapore, Government Printing Office, 1884. Ornithological notes made in the Straits settlement and in the western states of the Malay Peninsula, v. p. JUDD, SYLVESTER DWIGHT. . . . Birds of a Maryland farm. A local study of economic orni- 98 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY thology. By Sylvester D. Judd . . . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1902. 116 pp. illus., 17 pi. 2 3 C ,cm. JUDD, SYLVESTER DWIGHT. . . . 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Birds' nests, eggs and egg-collecting. By R. Kearton. Illus. with 22 col. pi. . . . Revised and enlarged. London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne, Cassell & Co., Ltd. [1896]. 96 pp. col. front., col. pi. 2O cm - KEARTON, RICHARD. British birds' nests; how, where and when to find and identify them. By R. Kearton, with an introduction by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Illus. from photographs by C. Kearton. . . . London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne, Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1898. xx, 368pp. front. ; illus. from photographs. 24 cm ' KEARTON, RICHARD. With nature and a cam- era; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer. By Richard 100 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY Kearton . . . illustrated by 180 pictures from photo- graphs by Cherry Kearton. Popular ed. London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne, Cassell and Com- pany, Limited, 1898. xiv, 368 pp., incl. front., illus. 22 cm ' KEELER, CHARLES AUGUSTUS. Bird notes afield ; a series of essays on the birds of California. By Charles A. Keeler. San Francisco, D. P. Elder and M. Shepard, 1899. vii, 352 [i] pp., II. cm. KEELER, CHARLES AUGUSTUS. Evolution of the colors of North American land birds. By Charles A. Keeler. San Francisco, Cal. Acad. of Sci., Jan., 1893. xii, 361 pp. 19 pi. (col.). 24 cm> KEELY, ROBERT N. In Arctic seas. The voyage of the " Kite " with the Peary expedition, together with a transcript of the Log of the "Kite" by Robert N. Keely, Jr. . . . and G. G. Davis. Illus. by maps, port., and photographic views. Philadelphia, Rufus C. Hartranft, 1893. vii, 524 pp. front., illus., map. 23 cm< KELLS, WILLIAM L. Nesting of some Canadian Warblers. (Black-throated Green, July, 1903. Bay- breasted, Dec., 1902. Chestnut-sided, Jan., 1902.) Two Warblers new to Canada, March, 1901. Cory's Least Bittern. By Wm. L. Kells. June, 1901. v. p. 23 cm - ("The Ottawa Naturalist.") KERMODE, FRANCIS. Catalogue of British Columbia birds. Victoria, B.C., Richard Wolfenden, 1904. 69 pp. 22 cm> KERMODE, FRANCIS. 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New York and London, The Macmillan Co., 1899. ix pp., II., 162 pp. 19*- LANGILLE, J. HIBBERT. Our birds in their haunts ; a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. By Rev. J. Hibbert Langille. New York, Orange Judd Co., 1892. 630 pp. front., illus. 2i cm - LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT. The greatest flying creature. By S. P. Langley, introducing a paper on the Pterodactyl Ornithostoma, by F. A. Lucas. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1902. pp. 649-659; pi. i- vn. LANTZ, D. E. List of birds collected by Col. N. S. Goss in Mexico and Central America. From the col- lector's notes; compiled by D. E. Lantz, 1897. A review of Kansas ornithology. By D. E. Lantz, 1897. pp. 218-278. 23 cm ' LATHAM, JOHN. A general history of birds. By John Latham . . . Winchester [Eng.]. Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author; sold in London by G. and W. B. Whittaker [etc.], 1821-28. 10 vols. 184 (i.e., 193) col. pi. LAUDER, SIR THOMAS DICK. Parrots. By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Capt. 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LEVAILLANT, FRANCOIS. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de Paradis et dies Rolliers, suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus. Par Francois Levaillant. Paris, Denn6 . . . Perlet . . . 1806. 2 vols., col. pi. LEVAILLANT, FRANCOIS. Histoire naturelle des Perroquets. Par Francois Levaillant. Paris, Levrault, 1801-38. 3 vols., col. pi. 53 , cm. LEVAILLANT, FRANf OIS. Histoire naturelle des Promerops, et des Gu^ piers. Par Francois Levail- lant ; faisant suite a celle des oiseaux de Paradis, par la m6me, tome troisieme. Paris, Denn le Jeune, 1807. 52pp. 5ocol.pl. SSs " 1 ' This is vol. 3 of the Oiseaux de Paradis. LEVAILLANT, FRANf OIS. Histoire naturelle d'une part6e d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de I'Am&rique et des Indes. Par Francois Levaillant. Paris, 1801, t.-p., Hi, 112 pp. 49 pi. and 49 col. pi. 53 cm- vol. I. LEVAILLANT, FRANCOIS. Second voyage dans I'interieurde 1'Afrique, parle Capde Bonne- Esperancee dans les ann6es 1783, '84 et '85. Par F. Levaillant. Paris, H. J. 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Natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature. By John William Lewin. New and improved edition, to which is added a list of the synonymes of each species . . . London, Henry G. Bohn, 1838. 26 col. pi., with descriptive text. 39 cm< LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, 1804-1806. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedi- tion, 1804-1806. Printed from the original Mss . . . together with Mss. material of Lewis and Clark from other sources . . . Now for the first time published in full and exactly as written. Edited, with intro. notes, and index. By Reuben Gold Thwaites. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1904-05. 7 vols. and an atlas; illus. and port. 25 cm * no BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY LICHTENSTEIN, ANTON AUGUST HEIN- RICH. Lichtenstein's catalogus rerum naturalium rarissimarum. Edited by F. du Cane Godman. Lon- don, 1882. iv, 60 pp. 26| cm> [The Willughby Society.] LILFORD, THOMAS L. P., 4th Baron. Lord Lilford on birds, being a collection of informal and unpublished writings by the late Pres. of the British Ornithologists' Union, with contributed papers upon falconry and other hunting, his favorite sport. Edited by Aubyn Trevor-Battye, and illustrated by A. Thorn- burn. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1903. xvii, 312 pp. illus., front. 26 cm> LILFORD, THOMAS L. P., 4th Baron. Col- oured figures of the birds of the British Islands. Issued by Lord Lilford. London, R. H. Porter . . . 1885-97. 7 vols., col. pi. 26| cm - Vol. I, front, port., A. Thorn- burn, illustrator. LILFORD, THOMAS L. P., 4th Baron. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood. By Lord Lilford. Illustrated by Messrs. A. Thornburn and G. E. Lodge, and a map. London, R. H. Porter, 1895. 2 vols., illus. and pis. 26| cm< LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. Trans- actions, vol. i, 1882. New York, Foster, 1882. 4 port. LINSLEY, JAMES H. Catalogue of the birds of Connecticut, arranged according to their natural families; prepared for the Yale Natural History So- ciety ... (in "Amer. Journal of Arts and Sciences," vol. 44, April, 1843, pp. 249-274). 22| cm< LITTELL, CLARENCE GUY. Birds of Winona Lake. By Clarence Guy Littell. (Indiana Univ. Bul- iii JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION letin, vol. I, Nov., 1903, no. 4, Bloomington, Ind., pp. 41-66.) Plates. I9 cm< LLOYD, LLEWELYN. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; together with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries . . . By L. Lloyd . . . London, Frederick Warren & Co., 1867. xx, 599 pp. illus., 52 pi. (48 col., incl. front.). 26 cm - LOOMIS, LEVERETT MILLS. California water birds. Vicinity of Monterey in autumn. By Leverett M. Loomis. With one plate. Issued Feb. 12, 1900. (Cal. Academy of Science, Third series, Proceedings, pp. 277-322, 349-363, 1900.) San Francisco. Pub. by the Academy, 1900. v. p. 24^ cm - LORD, JOHN KEAST. The naturalist in Van- couver Island and British Columbia. By John Keast Lord. In two volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1866. 2 vols., front., illus. 2i cm- LORD, WILLIAM ROGERS. A first book upon the birds of Oregon and Washington. A pocket guide and pupil's assistant; a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states. By William Rogers Lord. Revised and enlarged edition, 1902 ... Portland, Oregon. 304, iv pp. front. 15 photographs. i6 cm< LOUCKS, W. E. Life history and distribution of the Prothonotary Warbler in Illinois. By W. E. Loucks. Peoria, 111. 25 pp. 22| cm< LUCAS, FREDERIC A. Animals of the past. By Frederic A. Lucas . . . illustrated. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. xx, 258 pp. front., 41 illus. 112 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY LUCAS, FREDERIC A. The expedition to Funk Island, with observations upon the history and anat- omy of the Great Auk, 1888. Animals recently ex- tinct or threatened with extinction as represented in the collections of the U.S. National Museum, 1889. Ex- plorations in Newfoundland and Labrador after bones of the Great Auk, 1889. Weapons and wings of birds, 1893. v. p. illus., maps. 22 cm - LUCAS, FREDERIC A. The tongues of birds. By Frederic A. Lucas. (From the report of the U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895, pp. 1001-1019 with 2 pi.) Washington, Government Printing Office, 1897. 23 cm - LUCAS, FREDERIC A. The tongues of Wood- peckers. By F. A. Lucas. Washington, 1895. 35~39 pp. 3 pi. 22 cm> LYDEKKER, RICHARD. The new natural his- tory . . . with a preface by Joel A. Allen. New York, Merrill and Baker, n. d. 6 vols., illus., pi. 27 cm - Vol. 3 [Birds], bound in 3 parts. McATEE, WALDO LEE. ... The Horned Larks and their relation to agriculture. By W. L. McAtee . . . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1905. 37 pp. illus., 2 pi. (incl. front.). 23 cm - McATEE, WALDO LEE. Woodpeckers in relation to trees and wood products. By W. L. McAtee. Wash- ington, Government Printing Office. 99 pp. front, col., 12 pi. (incl. front., 2 col.), illus. 23 cm< McCHESNEY, CHARLES E. Notes on the birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakota Territory. By Chas. E. McChesney. . . . Dec. 25, 1878. pp. 71-103. 23 m> JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION M'CLINTOCK, F. L. A narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions. By Captain M'Clintock . . . London, John Murray, 1860. xxvii, 406 pp. front., illus., 2 maps (in pocket and at end). 23 cm> MAcGILLIVRAY, JOHN. Narrative of the voy- age of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Capt. Owen Stanley, during the years 1849-1850, in- cluding discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc.; to which is added the account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the Cape York peninsula. By John MacGillivray ... in two volumes. London, T. & W. Boone, 1852. 2 vols. front., illus. 23 cm - MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. Descriptions of the Rapacious birds of Great Britain. Edinburgh, London, Dublin, MacLachlan & Stewart, 1836. 482 pp. illus. in text. 2o cm> MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. A history of Brit- ish birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classi- fication and nomenclature ; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology . . . By William MacGillivray . . . Lon- don. Printed for Scott, Webster & Geary, 1837-52. 5 vols. illus., 29 pi. 22' Vols. 4-5 published by W. S. Orr & Co. MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. A history of Brit- ish birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classi- fication and nomenclature, an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practi- cal ornithology, illus. by numerous engravings. By 114 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY William MacGillivray. London, William S. Orr & Co. . . . 1852. 2 vols. illus. 23 cm - MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. Life of MacGillivray . . . ornithologist; professor of natural history, Marischal College and university, Aberdeen. By William MacGillivray. With scientific apprecia- tion, by J. Arthur Thomson. With illustrations. Lon- don, John Murray, 1910. xiii, 222 pp., front., illus. 23 cm. MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. The natural his- tory of Deeside and Braemar. By the late William MacGillivray. Edited by Edwin Lankester. London. Printed for private circulation, 1855. xx, 507 pp. front., illus. 23 cm - MCGREGOR, RICHARD c. A hand-list of the birds of the Philippine Islands. By Richard C. McGregor and Dean C. Worcester. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1906. 123 pp. 26| cm> McGREGOR, RICHARD C. A manual of Philip- pine birds. By Richard C. McGregor. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1909. 2 vols. McILWRAITH, THOMAS. The birds of Ontario; being a concise account of every species of bird known to have been found in Ontario, with a description of their nests and eggs and instructions for collecting birds and preparing and preserving skins; also direc- tions how to form a collection of eggs. By Thomas Mcllwraith . . . 2d ed., enl. and rev. to date . . . Toronto, W. Briggs, 1894. ix, [n]~426 pp. front. port., illus. MAcLEARY, W. S. Remarks on the comparative anatomy of certain birds of Cuba, with a view to their JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION respective places in the system of nature or their rela- tions with other animals. By W. S. MacLeary. (Lin- nean Society. Transactions, vol. xvi, 1826-27, 46 pp.) MACOUN, JOHN. Catalogue of Canadian birds. By John Macoun. Ottawa, 1900-04. 3vols. (3 parts). MACOUN, JOHN. Catalogue of Canadian birds. By John Macoun and James M. Macoun. Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1909. viii, 761, xviii pp. MACPHERSON, H. A. The Pheasant. Natural history. By the Rev. H. A. Macpherson. Shooting. By A. J. Stuart- Wortley. Cookery. By Alexander Innes Shand. With illus. by A. Thorburn. London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1895. vi, 265 pp. front., 9 pi. 20' MACPHERSON, H. B. The home-life of a Golden Eagle. Photographed and described by H. B. Macpher- son, with 32 mounted plates. London, Witherby & Co. 45 PP.. 31 pl. 26 :cm. MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Jour- nal of the Maine ornithological society: a quarterly journal of Maine ornithology, 1899-1906. 8 vols. in 4. Vols. 4-8, illus. 23| cm - MALHERBE, ALFRED. Monographic des Pici- des, ou histoire naturelle des Picids, Picuminds, Yun- cines ou Torcols ; comprenant, dans la premiere partie, 1'origine mythologique, les mceurs, les migrations, Tanatomie, la physiologic, etc. ; dans la deuxime par- tie, la synonymic, la description en latin et en frangais, 116 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY 1'histoire de chaque espece, ainsi qu'un dictionnaire alphabetique et synonomique latin de toutes les especes. Par Alf. Malherbe . . . Metz, Typ. de J. Verronnais, 1861-62. 4 vols. illus., 121 (i.e., 123) col. _i r .lcm. P* 542 MANTON, WALTER PORTER. Taxidermy with- out a teacher: comprising a complete manual of in- struction for preparing and preserving birds, animals, and fishes ... By Walter P. Manton. Illustrated. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham, 1882. 3 pp., I., [9]-56 pp. illus. is""' MANUALOF THE PRACTICAL NATURALIST: or, Directions for collecting, preparing, and preserving subjects of natural history. Boston, Lilly & Wait, and Carter, Hendee and Babcock, 1831. xxiv, 25-214 pp. front. iS "' MARK, EDWARD LAURENS. The Bermuda Islands and the Bermuda biological station for research. By E. L. Mark. With 16 pi. (From the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. 54, 1905. Cambridge, Mass.) 31 pp., 16 pi. MARRINER, GEORGE R. The Kea: a New Zea- land problem, including a full description of this very interesting bird, its habitat and ways, together with a discussion of the theories advanced to explain its sheep-killing propensities. By George R. Marriner . . . Marriner Bros. & Co., Christchurch, New Zea- land, 1908. 151 pp., incl. front., illus., port., map. MARSH, OTHNIEL CHARLES. Odontornithes: A monograph on the extinct toothed birds of North 117 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION America; with 34 pi. and 40 woodcuts. By Othniel Charles Marsh . . . Washington . . . 1880. xv, 201 pp., 34 pi., 40 woodcuts. MARSHALL, C. H. T. A monograph of the Capi- tonidae or Scansorial Barbets. By C. H. T. Marshall and G. F. L. Marshall. The plates drawn and litho- graphed by J. G. Keulemans. London. Published by the authors, 1870-71. xli pp., col. pi. with descriptive text, not numbered. 33' MARTIN, M. Voyage to St. Kilda, the remotest of all the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland . . . By M. Martin. Fourth ed. London, Daniel Brown and Lockyer Davis, 1753. 79 pp. 2i cm - MARTIN, WILLIAM CHARLES LINNAEUS. A general history of Humming-birds, or the Trochilidae: with especial reference to the collection of J. Gould . . . now exhibiting in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. By W. C. L. Martin . . . London, H. G. Bohn, 1852. vii pp. n., 232 pp., col. front., 14 (i.e., 15) col. pi. I7 cm - MASSACHUSETTS ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE STATE. Report of the Commissioners on the Zoological Survey of the State. Boston, Dutton & Wentworth, 1838. 107 pp. 24 cm> . MATHEWS, FERDINAND SCHUYLER. Field book of wild birds and their music ; a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the eastern United States. By F. Schuyler Mathews . . . with numerous reproductions of water-color and pen-and-ink studies of birds, and complete musical notations of bird songs, by the author. New York [etc.], G. P. Putnam's Sons, 118 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY 1904. xxxv, 262 pp., col. front., 52 pi. (partly col.). i8xio| cm - MAYER, ALFRED M. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters. Edited by Alfred M. Mayer. New York, The Century Co. [1883]. 2 vols. front., illus. 28 cm * MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. An atlas of plates for the Directory to the. Birds of Eastern North America. West Newton, Mass., C. J. Maynard, 1905. 40 hand-col, pi. by author; pi. with descriptive text. MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Bahama Fruit Finch. (In his Illustrations and descriptions of the birds of the Bahamas. Boston, Maynard, 1895.) 2 pp., 2 col. pi. 59 cm - MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. The birds of Eastern North America: with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. By C. J. Maynard, containing . . . plates drawn on stone by the author. Newtonville, Mass., C. J. Maynard & Co., 1879. col. plates. 32 cm> Complete in 16 parts, with 32 plates. In some issues the plates are uncolored. Published in i vol. by Alden & Hazen, Boston, 1882 [1881]. Bound as vol. II, "Birds of Florida"; bound as vol. i of this book. MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. The birds of Eastern North America; with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico, 119 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION with full notes upon their habits, etc. By C. J. May- nard . . . Rev. ed. Newtonville, Mass., C. J. May- nard & Co., 1896. iv, 721 pp. 40 pi. (col., incl. front.), 122 illustrations (some col.). 35 011 ' MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. The birds of Florida: containing original descriptions of upwards of two hundred and fifty species, with notes upon their habits, etc. By C. J. Maynard. With . . . plates drawn and colored from nature, by Helen S. Farley . . . Salem, Naturalists' Agency, 1872. col. plates. Parts i-rv have title: The birds of Florida, with the water and game birds of eastern North America . . . New- tonville, Mass., C. J. Maynard & Co., 1878. Bound as vol. I of "Birds of Eastern N. A." MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. A catalogue of the birds of Coos County, N. H., and Oxford County, Maine, with annotations relative to the breeding hab- its, migration, etc. By C. J. Maynard; with notes by Wm. Brewster. 1871. (Bost. Soc. of Natural History, Proceedings, vol. 14, Oct. 18, 1871.) 30 pp. 22 cm> MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Contribu- tions to science. By C. J. Maynard. Newtonville, Mass., 1894-96. Vols. II and HI., illus. 23' MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America, illus. with many woodcuts and twenty plates drawn and engraved by the author. By Charles J. Maynard. West Newton, Mass., C. J. Maynard, 1907. 317 pp. front. 23 pi. and many woodcuts. i6 cm ' Three copies, slightly different. Second copy, 23 hand- drawn pi. extra. Third copy, 23 hand-colored pi. extra. 120 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America, illus. with many woodcuts and 20 pi. drawn and engraved by the author, Charles J. Maynard. West Newton, Mass., C. J. Maynard, 1905. 144 pp. front., illus. iG 001 - MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Eggs of North American birds. By Chas. J. Maynard. Illus- trated with ten hand-colored plates. Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1890. iv, 159 pp. 10 col. pi. (incl. front.). 23 cm - MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Handbook of the Sparrows, Finches, etc., of New England. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. Newtonville, C.J. May- nard, 1896. vii pp., II., 94 pp. illus., 21 pi. (17 col.). MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Manual of taxidermy for amateurs. A complete guide in collect- ing and preserving birds and animals. By C. J. May- nard . . . New ed. New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co. [1901]. viii, iii-xvi, 115, [9] pp. illus. MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. The natu- ralist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history, with a complete catalogue of the birds of the eastern Massachusetts. By C. J. Maynard. With illustrations by E. L. Weeks. Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871. ix, 170 pp. front., illus. 20 cm< MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Nature studies in schools, conducted by C. J. Maynard. Vol.i, 1899, West Newton, Mass., C. J. Maynard. 274 pp. illus. and 10 col. pi. 23^ cm - MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. Records of walks and talks with nature, conducted by C. J. May- 121 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION nard. Vol. I, 1908, West Newton, Mass. 181 pp. illus. in text. 13 pi. (some col.). i8 cm - MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON. The War- blers of New England. By C. J. Maynard . . . West Newton, C. J. Maynard, 1905. 3 pp., I., 138 pp. col. front., illus., 12 col. pi. 24 cm> Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with description. PI. i-vi each accompanied by a duplicate pi. uncolored. "This copy is hand-colored by C. J. Maynard, no. 19." MEARN, EDGAR A. Descriptions of a new species and three new sub-species of birds from Ari- zona. (From "The Auk," vol. vii, no. 3, July, 1890.) A study of the Sparrow Hawks (subgenus tinnun- culus) of America, with especial reference to the con- tinental species (Falco sparverius, Linn.). (From "The Auk," vol. IX, no. 3, July, 1892.) v. p. MEINERTZHAGEN, DAN. Bird life in an Arctic spring. The diaries of Dan Meinertzhagen and R. P. Hornby. London, R. H. Porter, 1899. iii, 150, iii pp. front, port., illus. and 27 pi. 2O cm - MERRIAM, CLINTON HART. Report of the ornithologists and mammalogists. (U.S. Dep't of Agriculture. Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, Report, 1889, pp. 363-536.) illus., col. pi. 22| cm - MERRIAM, CLINTON HART. A review of the birds of Connecticut, with remarks on their habits. By C.HartMerriam. June, 1877. xii,242pp. 2 col. pi. 24 cm - MERRIAM, CLINTON HART. The summer birds of western Maryland. By C. Hart Merriam and 122 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY Edward A. Preble. (Special publication from Alle- gany Co. report.) The Johns Hopkins Press, Balti- more, Nov., 1900. pp. 292-397. 27- MERSHON, W. B. The Passenger Pigeon. By W. B. Mershon. New York, The Outing Publishing Com- pany, 1907. xii, ii., 225 pp. col. front., 7 pi. (i col.), facsim. MERZBACHER, GOTTFRIED. The central Tian-Shan mountains, 1902-03. By Gottfried Merz- bacher. Published under the authority of the Royal Geographical Society. New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905. ix, 294 pp. front., photographs. 23 cm ' MEYER, H. L. Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs. By H. L. Meyer. London, G. W. Nickerson, 1842-50. 7 vols. col. pi. 22 cm- Vols. 3-8, printed by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. MEYER, H. L. Illustrations of British birds. By H. L. Meyer. London, Longman & Co. 4 vols., col. pi., no text, n. d. 27 cm> Vol. i, Land birds, 77 pi. (col.). Vol. n, Land birds, 76 pi. (col.). Vol. HI, Water birds, 82 pi. (col.). Vol. rv, Water birds, 81 pi. (col.). MICHAUX, FRANf OIS ANDRfi. Travels to the westward of the Allegany Mountains in the states of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the year 1802. Containing account relative to the present state of agriculture, and the natural products of those districts; together with particulars of the commercial relations which subsist between those states, and those to the eastward of the mountains, and of Lower Louisiana. By F. A. Michaux . . . Translated from the French. 123 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION London, Richard Phillips, 1805. 96 pp., front, (map). First English edition. 2i| cm ' Contains interesting accounts of the Wild Turkeys and other birds. MICHELET, JULES. The bird. By Jules Miche- let; with 210 illustrations by Giacomelli. London, New York [etc.], T. Nelson and Sons, 1869. x pp., II., [13]- 340 pp., incl. illus., plates. 24f cm - MICHENER, E. Insectivorous birds of Chester Co., Pa. Agricultural Ornithology. By E. Michener, M.D. Avondale, Pa. pp. 2.87-307. 22 cm - MICHIGAN BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Thirty-second annual report of the secretary of the state board of agriculture of the state of Michigan from July I, 1892, to June 30, 1893. By authority. Lansing, R. Smith & Co. . . . 1894. 516 pp. illus. in text. 24 cm - MICHIGAN ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. Bul- letin, vols. 1-6, Jan., i897~June, 1905. Grand Rapids and Detroit, Mich., 1897-1905. No more published. Vols. 1-3 were published at Grand Rapids: vols. 4-6, at Detroit. MIDDENDORFF, A. T. Einleitung, Klimatologie, Geognosie, Botanik . . . Theil I. St. Petersburg, 1848. (Reise in den Aussersten norden und osten Sibiriens, Band I.) 256 pp., 26 pi., some col. si ' MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE. British Diving Ducks. By J. G. Millais; vol. I, with thirty- two plates (twenty- two of which are coloured), by Archibald Thorburn, O. Murray Dixon, H. Gronvold, and the author. Longmans, Green & Co., New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, 1913. vii, 141 pp. col. front., 42 cm> This copy is no. 18. 124 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE. Game birds and shoot- ing-sketches ; illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage, and the hybrids and varieties which occur amongst them. By John Guille Millais. London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1892. xii, 72 pp., pi. (some col.) and illus. 4Ox32 cm< MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE. The natural history of British game birds. By J. G. Millais. With 18 col. pi., 17 photogravures, and 2 other illus., by Archibald Thorburn and J. G. Millais. Longmans, Green & Co., New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, 1909. xi, 142 pp. col. front., col. pi. 42 cm - Title-page in red and black. Only 550 copies of this book have been printed. This copy is No. 87. MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE. Tne natural history of the British surface-feeding ducks. By J. G. Millais; with 6 photogravures, 41 col. pi. and 25 other illus. 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(col.), illus. 20 cm ' MILNE, JOHN. Relics of the Great Auk on Funk Island. By John Milne. [Reprinted from "The Field" of March 27 and April 3 and 10, 1875.] 16 pp. front. 2I cm. MINOT, HENRY DAVIS. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . . . By H. D. MinoJ . . . Salem, Mass., Naturalists' Agency; Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1877. xy i> 456 pp. front., illus. 23| cm< First edition. MINOT, HENRY DAVIS. The land-birds and game-birds of New England, with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . . . illustrations. By H. D. Minot. Second edition, ed. by William Brewster . . . Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. xxiv pp., II., 492 pp. front, port., illus. 22| cm - MIVART, ST. GEORGE. A monograph of the Lories, or Brush-tongued Parrots, composing the family Lariidae. By St. George Mivart; . . . London, R. H. Porter, 7 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W., 1896. liii, [193] pp. 61 col. pi., 3 maps. 34 cm> MONTAGU, GEORGE. A dictionary of British birds. Reprinted from Montagu's ornithological dictionary, and incorporating the additional species 126 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY described by Selby; Yarrell, in all three editions, and in natural-history journals. Comp. and ed. by Edward Newman . . . London, J. van Voorst, 1866. xxiv, 399, [ij PP. 22r m " MONTAGU, GEORGE. Ornithological dictionary of British birds. By Colonel G. Montagu, F.L.S. 2d ed. With a plan of study, and many new articles and original observations. By James Rennie . . . London, Hurst, Chance & Co., 1831. I p., I., Ix pp., II., 592 pp. illus. 2i| cm - Marquis of Lome copy. MORRIS, BEVERLEY R. British game birds and water fowl. By Beverley R. Morris . . . illustrated with sixty colored plates. London, Groombridge & Sons, 1855. iv, 252 pp. col. front., 60 col. pi. ^i^- MORRIS, BEVERLEY R. British game birds and wild fowl. By Beverley R. Morris. Fourth edition, revised and corrected, W. B. Tegetmeier. With 60 large pi., coloured by hand. In two vols. London, John C. Nimmo, 1895. 2 vols. 60 col. pi. 28 cm< MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN. A history of Brit- ish birds. By the Rev. F. O. Morris . .. . London, Groombridge & Sons, n. d. 8 vols. front, (col.), col. pi. I 9 cm - MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN. A history of Brit- ish birds. By the Rev. F. O. Morris . . . London, Geo. Bell & Sons, 1870. 6 vols., col. front., 352 col. pi. 26 cm ' First published in 1851-57. Second edition. MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN. A natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds. By the Rev. 127 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION F. O. Morris, R.A. London, George Bell & Sons, 1875. 3 vols. front., 332 pi. 26 cm - Second edition. MORRIS, ROBERT O. The birds of Springfield and vicinity. By Robert O. Morris. Springfield, Mass. Published by Henry R. Johnson, 1901. 54 pp. front, (map). 22 cm - MORSE, ALBERT PITTS. Annotated list of birds of Wellesley and vicinity; comprising the land-birds and most of the inland water-fowl of eastern Massa- chusetts. By Albert Pitts Morse . . . Wellesley, Mass. Pub. by the author, 1897. 56 pp. front. i6| cm - MOSELEY, H. N. Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger," being an account of various observa- tions made during the voyage of H.M.S. " Challenger" round the world, in the years 1872-76, under the com- mand of Sir G. S. Nares . . . and Capt. F. T. Thomp- son. By H. N. Moseley. With a map, 2 col. pi. and numerous woodcuts. London, 1879. xvi, 606 pp. map, 2 col. pi. and woodcuts, front. 23 cm * MOSLEY, S. L. A history of British birds, their nests and eggs, with hand-coloured figures of every species and variety. By S. L. Mosley, with text revised by a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Hud- dersfield, 1884-87. 2 vols. col. pi. 22| cm - MUDIE, ROBERT. The feathered tribes of the British Islands. By Robert Mudie . . . 2d ed. Lon- don, Whittaker & Co., 1835. 2 vols. col. front., illus., col. plates. I9| cm - Engr. title-page, with vignette in colors. MUDIE, ROBERT. The feathered tribes of the British Islands. By Robert Mudie. Fourth edition, 128 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY revised by W. C. L. Martin. Illus. with 28 pi. con- taining 52 figs, of birds, and 7 pi. of eggs. In 2 vols. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. 2 vols., front., illus. and pi. I9 cm - Two title-pages, the first with vignette. MULSANT, E. Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux- mouches ou Colibris, constituant la famille des Tro- chilides. Par E. Mulsant et feu Eduard Veneaux, Lyon. Geneve-Bale, H. Georg, 1874-77. 4 vols. and supplement, col. pi. in each vol. 57 col. pi. in sup. (no text). 34 cm - NANSEN, DR. FRITDJOF. Farthest North, being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram," 1893-96, and of a 15 months' sleigh journey. By Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. New York, Harper & Bros., 1897. 2 vols. front., illus., i6col. pi., map. 25 cm - NARBROUGH, SIR JOHN. An account of sev- eral late voyages to the South-sea by the command of King Charles the second . . . II. Capt. J. Tasman's discoveries on the coast of the South Terra Incognita. in. Capt. J. Wood's attempt to discover a north east passage to China, iv. F. Marten's Observations made in Greenland, and Northern Countries . . . London, D. Brown . . . 1711. xxiv, 191, 223 pp. map. 2O cm> NASH, CHARLES W. The birds of Ontario in relation to agriculture. By Charles W. Nash, Toronto. Published by the Ontario Dept. of Agr. Toronto, Warwick Bro's & Rutter, 1898. 32 pp. 32 full-page illus. 25""- NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS; containing a variety of facts selected from several writers, and 129 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION intended for the amusement and instruction of chil- dren. With copper plates. In six parts. London, J. Johnson, 1791. 3 vols. (6 pts.). col. pi. 18 jcm. NAUMANN. Iconographie d'oiseaux d'Europe et de leurs ceufs. Edition francais de 413 pi. col., destinees a .servir d'atlas a I'ornithologie europeene de Degland et Gerbe . . . Par A. Bourier. Paris, A. Hermann & Fils, 1910. 3 vols. col. pi. 4O cm- NEHRLING, HENRY. Our nature birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the song- birds, Flycatchers, Hummingbirds, Swifts, Goatsuck- ers, Woodpeckers, Kingfishers, Trogons, Cuckoos, and Parrots of North America. By Henry Nehrling . . . With thirty-six colored plates after water-color paint- ings by Prof. Robert Ridgway . . . Prof. A. Goering . . . and Gustav Muetzel . . . Milwaukee, G. Brum- der, 1893-. 2 vols. 5 col. pi. NELSON, EDWARD W. Report upon the natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1 88 1, by Edward W. Nelson. Edited by Henry W. Henshaw. Washington, Government Print- ing Office, 1887. 337 pp. 12 col. pi. so ' NELSON, EDWARD W. A revision of the North American mainland species of Myiarchus. By E. W. Nelson. (Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. xvu, 1904, pp. 21-50.) 22| cm> NELSON, HARRY LEVERETT. Bird-songs about Worcester. By Harry Leverett Nelson. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1889. 2 pp., I., 131 pp. jgcm. NEW JERSEY. State Museum. Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum including a list of the 130 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY birds of New Jersey, with a description of each and illustrations and the law protecting birds, etc., 1903. Camden, N. J., Chas. Sinnickson & Sons Co., 1904. PP- front., pi., some col. NEWTON, ALFRED. A dictionary of birds. By Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow, with contri- butions from Richard Lydekker . . . Charles S. Roy . . . and Robert W. Shufeldt . . . London, A. and C. Black, 1893-96. 2 pp., L., xii, 124, 1088 pp. illus., fold. map. 23 cm> NEW YORK. Commissioners of fisheries, game and forests. 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A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the northwest coast of America, performed in 1785-88 in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. Embellished with 20 copper plates. . . . By Captain Nathaniel Portlock. London, . . . 1789. xii, 384, xl pp. front, port., illus. and maps. 30 -.cm. POYNTING, FRANK. Eggs of British birds, with an account of their breeding-habits: Limicolae. With 54 coloured plates. By Frank Poynting. London, R. H. Porter, 1895-96. viii pp. 54 col. pi. with descrip- tive text. 30**' PREVOST, FLORENT. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques. Par Florent Pr6vost et L. Le- maire, avec 80 planches reprsentant 200 sujets. Paris, F. Savy. 156, xii pp. 80 col. pi. 2 pi. 25 cm< 141 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION PRICHARD, H. HESKETH. Through the heart of Patagonia. By H. Hesketh Prichard. With illus. from drawings in colors and black and white, by J. G. Millais, F.Z.S., and from photographs. New York, D. 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By Robert Ridgway. no t.-p. v. p. 23 cm> RIDGWAY, ROBERT. A winter with the birds of Costa Rica. By Robert Ridgway. With photographs by the author. [Reprinted from "The Condor," vol. vu, no. 6, Nov., 1905.] pp. 151-160. illus. 27"- RIDGWAY, ROBERT. Color standards and color nomenclature. By Robert Ridgway. With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colors. Washington, 1912. in, 43 pp. 23^ cm> Autograph copy. RIKER, CLARENCE B. A list of birds observed at Santarem, Brazil. By Clarence B. Riker. With annotations by Frank M. Chapman, 1890. pp. 131- 164. 22 cm - RILEY, C. V. The insectivorous habits of the Eng- lish Sparrow. By C. V. Riley, Ph.D. Author's edition. (1887?) 22 pp. 22 cm> RILEY, JAMES. Remarks on Sidi Hamet's notices of the interior parts of Africa, as published by the American sea-captain James Riley in his narrative of the loss of the American Brig Commerce, etc. Pre- sented to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks. By Jacob Graberg of Herriso: . . . Mss. 25 pp. 147 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION RIVES, WILLIAM C. A catalogue of the birds of the Virginias. By Wm. C. Rives. Newport, R.I., T. T. Pitman, Oct., 1890. 100 pp. maps. 23 cm - ROBINSON, ROWLAND E. In New England fields and woods. By Rowland E. Robinson. Boston and New York, Hough ton, Mifflin & Co. . . . 1896. viii, 287 pp. i8 c cmt ROBINSON, WIRT. An annotated list of birds collected in the vicinity of La Quaiva, Venezuela. By Wirt Robinson and Charles W. Richmond. Washing- ton, Government Printing Office, 1901. pp. 163-175. ROBINSON, WIRT. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America, and to the island of Curasao, West Indies, in the year 1892. Cambridge, The Riverside Press, 1895. x, 194 pp. col. front., illus., col. pi., port., maps. 8. ROOD, MRS. E. IRENE, Ed. Papers presented to the World's Congress on Ornithology. Edited by Mrs. E. Irene Rood . . . under the direction of Dr. Elliott Coues. Chicago, Charles H. Sergei Co., 1896. 208 pp. 25 .cm. ROOSEVELT, ROBERT B. The game-birds of the coasts and lakes of the northern states of America. A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and in- land waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech- loaders and muzzle-loaders. By Robert B. Roosevelt. New York, Carleton, 1869. vi, 336 pp. 19 -.cm. ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. African game trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American 148 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY hunter-naturalist. By Theodore Roosevelt. With more than 200 illus. from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. xiii, 583 pp. front., illus. 25 cm - ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Hunting trips of a ranchman. Sketches of sport on the northern cattle plains. By Theodore Roosevelt. Illus. by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J. C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, Henry Sandham. London, Kegan Paul, 1886. xvi, 347 pp. front., illus. 24 cm> ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The wilderness hunter; an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound, and rifle. By Theo- dore Roosevelt. G. P. Putnam's Sons, xv, 472 pp. 22 illus. and front. 29 cm> Limited edition. Copy no. 165. ROSS, ALEXANDER MILTON. The birds of Canada: with descriptions of their plumage, habits, food, song, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure. By Alexander Milton Ross . . . 2d ed. Toronto, Rowsell and Hutchison, 1872. xvi, 152 pp. illus. ROTHSCHILD, WALTER. The Avifauna of Lay- san and the neighboring islands: with a complete his- tory to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild.* Illus. with colored and black plates, by Messrs. Keulemansand Frohawk: . . . London, R. H. Porter, 1893-1900. xx, xiv, 320 pp. col. front., col. pi., illus. 38 cm - ROTHSCHILD, WALTER. Extinct birds. An attempt to write in one volume a short account of 149 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION those birds which have become extinct in historical times that is, within the last 600 or 700 years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild. With 45 col. pi. embracing 63 subjects, and other illus. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1907. xxix, 244 pp. 42 col. Pi- 39 C ..cm. ROTHSCHILD, WALTER. Novitates zoologies. A journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum, edited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ernest Hartert, and Dr. K. Jordan. Printed by Hazell, Matsen & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury, 1894-1908. 14 vols. illus. with col. pi. 29 cm - ROWLEY, GEORGE DAWSON. Ornithological miscellany. Edited by George Dawson Rowley. Lon- don, Triibner and Co., . . . 1876-78. 3 vols. illus., col. pi., front. 34 cm - ROWLEY, JOHN. The art of taxidermy. By John Rowley . . . Illus. with 20 full-page pi. and 59 draw- ings in text. New-York, D. Appleton & Co., 1898. xi, 244 pp. front, (col.), illus. RUDOLF, crown prince of Austria. Notes on sport and ornithology. By his imperial and royal highness the late crown prince Rudolf of Austria. Tr. with the author's permission, by C. G. Danford. London, Gurney and Jackson, 1889. vii, 648 pp. front. 23 cm. RUSS, KARL. The speaking Parrots: a scientific manual. By Dr. Karl Russ . . . Translated by Leonora Schultze, and revised by Dr. Karl Russ. London, L. Upcott Gill, 1884. viii, 296pp. col. front., col. pi. 2o| cm> 150 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY SAINT-PIERRE, JAMES HENRY B. DE. Stud- ies of nature; translated from the French of James Henry Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. In three volumes. London, Lee & Hurst . . . 1798. 3vols. 2i cm - vol. I, front. SALERNE, M. L'histoire naturelle, eclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, 1'ornithologie, qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et de riviere, tant de nos climats que des pays etrangers . . . Par M. Salerne . . . enrichi de 31 figures dessines d'apres nature. Paris, Debure, 1767. xii, 463 pp. 31 col. pi., incl. front, (col.). SALVADORI, TOMMASO. Intorno alia Porzana Moluccana Wall, ed alia Gallinula Ruficrissa Gould. Nota di Tommaso Salvador! . . . 1879. Nuova specie del genere Gacticus Vieillot, 1874. Intorno al genere Cymborhynchus vigors 1874. Intorno ad una specie poco nota del genere Cyclopsittacus . . . 1882. Intorno ad alcuni uccelli di Costa Rica. v. p. SALVIN, FRANCIS HENRY. Falconry in the British Isles. By Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick. London, John van Voorst, 1855. vi, 147 pp. 24 col. pi. 30- SALVIN, OSBERT. Central and South American birds. 3 vols. col. pi. 22 cm - SALVIN, OSBERT. Notes on birds from British Guiana. By Osbert Salvin and F. D. Goodman. Notes on birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana. By Osbert Salvin. v. p. 6 col. pi. no date, no t.-p. 23 cm> JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Among the birds: a series of sketches for young folks, illustrating the domestic life of our feathered friends. By Edward A. Samuels . . . Boston, Nichols and Noyes, 1868. viii, 223 pp. front., illus. 18 >cm. SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. The birds of New England. By Edward A. Samuels. Boston, Noyes, Holmes and Company, 1870. front., 591 pp. illus. and 8 col. pi. 24 cm< SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. The birds of New England and adjacent states . . . with illus. of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs. By Edward A. Samuels. With an appendix con- taining supplementary notes. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. Boston, Noyes, Holmes & Co., 1875. vii, 591 pp. front., col. illus. and 8 col. pi. 24 cm< SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Oology of some of the land birds of New England, as a means of identifying injurious or beneficial species. By E. A. Samuels, Boston, Mass. pp. 386-430. 22 cm> no t.-p. SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Ornithology and oology of New England: containing full descrip- tions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classi- fication and nomenclature; together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs. By Edward A. Samuels . . . Boston, Nichols and Noyes, 1867. vii, 583 pp. front., illus., plates. 24 cm - 152 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Our north- ern and eastern birds. Containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, etc., with illus. of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs. By Edward A. Samuels. With a suppl. from Holder's "American Fauna." 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(incl. front.). 2& m - SCHAANNING, H. THO. L. Ostfinmarkens fu- glefauna. Ornithologiske meddellelser vedrorende trak- 153 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION terne om Varangerf jorden specielt Sydvarangers fauna i aarene 1900-1906. A. and H. Tho. L. Schaanning, 1907. 97 pp. 23 m - Autograph copy. SCHAEFFER, DIACOBUS CHRISTIANUS. Museum ornithologicum exhibens envmerationem et descriptionem avium quas nova prorsus ratione sibi paratas in museo suo asservat Diacobus Christianus Schaeffer . . . Ratisbonae, 1789. 72 pp. 52 pi. (col.). SCHLEGEL, H. De vogels van Nederlandsch Indie, beschreven en afgebeeld door H. Schlegel . . . Leiden, E. J. Brill; Amsterdam, G. L. Funke. n. d. 68 pp. 50 col. pi. 32| cm ' (Title-page in French and Dutch. Text in French and Dutch.) SCHLEGEL, H. Kritische Ubersicht der Euro- paischen Vogel. Von Dr. H. Schlegel. Leiden, Leip- zig, Paris, 1844. cxxxv, n6pp. 25 cm> (Text in German and French.) SCHLEGEL, H. Natuurlijke Historie van Neder- land. De Dieren van Nederland. Haarlem, A. C. Kruseman, 1860. Ixxi, 132 pp. 18 Tafereel and 17 Plaat. 23 cm ' SCHLEGEL, H. Natuurlijke Historie van Neder- land. De Dieren van Nederland. Gewervelde dieren door Prof. H. Schlegel. Haarlem, A. C. Kruseman, 1861. vii, i34- 26 3 PP- pl- 18-35 (col.). 23 cm - SCHOEDLER, FRIEDRICH. The book of nature: an elementary introduction to the sciences of physics, astronomy, chemistry, mineralogy, geology, botany, zoology, and physiology. By Friedrich Schoedler. 154 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY 2d edition. Trans, from the 6th Ger. ed. by Henry Medlock. London and Glasgow, Richard Griffin & Co., 1854. 7, 608 pp. illus. 2i cm> SCLATER, PHILIP LUTLEY. Argentine orni- thology. A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. By P. L. Sclater . . . With notes on their habits by W. H. Hudson . . . London, R. H. Porter, 1888. 2 vols. illus. 20 col. pi. 26 cm - SCLATER, PHILIP LUTLEY. Catalogue of a collection of American birds belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London, N. 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The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Venesei. By Henry Seebohm. With map and illustrations. London, John Murray, 1901. xix, 512 pp. illus. SEEBOHM, HENRY. Coloured figures of the eggs of British birds, with descriptive notices by Henry Seebohm . . . edited (after the author's death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. xxiv, 304 pp. front.- port., 59 col. pi. 26 cm - 156 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY SEEBOHM, HENRY. Contributions to the orni- thology of Siberia. By Henry Seebohm, etc. . . . v. p. 2col.pl. 23 cm - ("The Ibis." Fourth series, no. ix, Jan., 1879.) SEEBOHM, HENRY. The geographical distribu- tion of the family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sand- pipers, Snipes, and their allies. By Henry Seebohm . . . London [etc.], H. Sotheran & Co. [1888]. xxix, 524 pp. front., illus., col. pi. 33x27 cm> SEEBOHM, HENRY. A history of British birds, with coloured illustrations of their eggs. By Henry Seebohm. 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THAYER COLLECTION tions of the natural history, migration of birds, etc. By Henry Seebohm. With map and illus. London, John Murray, 1882. xviii, 304 pp. map. illus. 2i cm< SEEMANN, BERTHOLD. Narrative of the voy- age of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-51, under command of Capt. Henry Kellett; being a circum- navigation of the globe, and three cruises to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin. By Berthold Seemann. In two volumes. London, Reeve & Co., 1853. front, (col.), illus. 22 cm> SELBY, PRIDEAUX JOHN. Illustrations of British ornithology. By Prideaux John Selby . . . Edinburgh. Printed for the proprietor, and pub. by W. H. Lizars . . . 1833. 2 vols. 228 pi. (224 col.). SELIGMANN, JOHANN MICHAEL. Sammlung verschiedener auslanischer und seltener vogel worin- nen ein jeder dererselben nicht nur auf das genaueste beschrieben sondern auch in einer richtigen und sauber illuminerten. Abbildung vorgestellet wird von Johann Michael Seligmann. 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General zoology or systematic natural history by George Shaw, with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens, engraved principally by Mrs. Griffith. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1809-26. [Aves.] Vols. vn-xrv [each vol. in 2 parts], illus. 22 cm> Vols. ix-xrv, Pt. i, by James Francis Stephens. Vol. xiv, Pt. 2, Index. SHELLEY, GEORGE ERNEST. A handbook to the birds of Egypt. By G. E. Shelley. London, John van Voorst, 1872. viii, 342 pp. front, (col.), col. pi. 26 cm ' SHELLEY, GEORGE ERNEST. A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or family of Sun-birds. By Captain G. E. Shelley . . . London. Published by the author, 1876-80. cviii, 393 [i] p. 12 1 pi. 34| cm - Originally published in 12 parts, July 28, i876-Feb- ruary, 1880. SHEPPARD, EDWIN. Birds of Virginia. Edwin Sheppard. 56 watercolors, hand-painted. 22 cm> x3O cm< SHORT, ERNEST H. Birds of western New York. With notes. Ernest H. Short. Second edition, 1896. Frank H. Lattin, Pub., Albion, N. 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Fauna Japonica sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava Imperium tenent, fuscepto Annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis observationibus et adumberationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold conjunctis studies C. J. Temminck et H. Schlegel pro vertebratis atque W. De Haan pro invertebratis elaborata. Regis auspiciis edita Lugduni Batavorum, 1833. Amstelodami, apud J. Muller et Co. 4 vols. 4ix32 cm - SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN. Into the heart of Cataract Canon, Grand Canon of Arizona. By William A. Brewer. My trip to King's river Canon. By Dr. Joseph Le Conte. Conifers of the Pacific slope ; how to distinguish them. By John G. Lemmon. Birds of the High Mts. By Vernon L. Kellogg, etc., 1902. pp. 77-176. front., illus. 24 m - 162 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY SLATER, HENRY H. Manual of the birds of Ice- land. By Henry H. Slater. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1901. xxiii, 150 pp. front., illus. 2 maps. 20 cm. SMITH, ANDREW. 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THAYER COLLECTION SURFACE, H. A. The economic value of our native birds. . . . By H. A. Surface. . . . Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 15, 1903. Birds around the farm. By H. A. Surface, v. p. 23 cm< (Penn. Dept. of Agr. The Zoolog- ical Quarterly Bulletin. Vol. I, no. I, May 15, 1903.) SWAINSON, WILLIAM. The natural history of the birds of Western Africa. By William Swainson. . . . Edinburgh, 1837. 2 vols. illus. col. pi., wood- cuts and front, port. IS "' SWAINSON, WILLIAM. A selection of the birds of Brazil and Mexico. The drawings by William Swainson. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1841. 4 pp. 83 col. pi. 25 cm - SWAINSON, WILLIAM. Fauna Boreali-Ameri- cana ; or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America: . . . Part second. The Birds. By William Swainson and John Richardson . . . illus. by numer- ous plates and woodcuts. . . . London, John Murray, 1831. Ixvi, 523 pp. col. pi. 30"- SWANN, H. K. The birds of London. By H. K. Swann. 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Faune ornithologique de la Siberie orientale. Par le Dr. L. Taczanowski. Avec une biographic par Jean Stolzmann . . . et un por. phototypique ex6cut6 par M. G. Clasen aux frais de M. le Comte Xavier Branicki. St. Petersbourg, 1893. front., port. 34"- TAYLOR, WALTER P. Field notes on amphibi- ans, reptiles and birds of Northern Humboldt County, Nevada. With a discussion of some of the faunal features of the region. By Walter P. Taylor, Univer- sity of California Press, Berkeley, 1912. pp. 319-425, pi. 7-12. 27^ cm - (Univ. of Cal. Publications in Zoology, vol. 7, no. 10.) TEGETMEIER, W. B. Pigeons: their structure, varieties, habits, and management. By W. B. Teget- meier. With col. representations of the different varie- ties, drawn from life by Harrison Weir. London, 1868. 190 pp. col. illus. 24 cmt TEMMINCK, COENRAAD JACOB. Nouveau recueil de planches colorizes d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complement aux planches enluminees de 169 JOHN E. THAYER COLLECTION Buff on, Edition in folio et in 4 de rimprimerie royale, 1770; pub. par C. J. Temminck . . . et le baron M. Laugier de Chartreuse . . . d'apres les dessins de Huet et Prdtre . . . Paris, F. G. Levrault, [i82o]-38. 5 vols. col. pi. 37 cm ' TENNENT, SIR JAMES EMERSON. Ceylon; an account of the island, physical, historical, and topo- graphical, with notices of its natural history, antiqui- ties and productions. By Sir James Emerson Tennent. Illus. by maps, plans and drawings. Fifth edition thoroughly revised. London, Longman, Green, Long- man & Roberts, 1860. 2 vols. illus., maps. 23 cm- THAYER, GERALD H. Concealing-coloration in the animal kingdom; an exposition of the laws of dis- guise through color and pattern: being a summary of Abbott H. Thayer's discoveries. By Gerald H. Thayer. Illus. by Abbott H. Thayer, Gerald H. Thayer, Richard S. Meryman and others, and with photographs. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1909. xix, 260 pp. 16 col. pi. 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De Middleton in agro Warwicensi, armigeri, e regia societate. Ornitholo- giae: libri tres, in quibus aves omnes hactenus cog- nitae in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactae accurate describuntur, descriptiones iconibus elegantis- simis et vivarum avium simillimis, aeri incisis illus- trantur. Totum opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit Joannes Raius: sumptus in chalcographos fecit illus- triss. D. Emma Willughby, vidua. Londini, impensis Joannis Martyn, Regiae Societatis typographi, ad insigne campanae in Caemeterio D. Pauli, 1676. 307 pp. 77 pi. 3 8 cm - 1 80 BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY WILLUGHBY, FRANCIS. The ornithology of Francis Willughby, of Middleton, in the County of Warwick, Eng., Fellow of the Royal Society: in three books, wherein all the birds hitherto known being reduced into a method suitable to their natures are accurately described ... to which are added three considerable discourses ... by John Ray. London. 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