Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum
- Bib ID:
- 532169
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
- Description:
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- London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1874-98
- 27 v. : illus., 387 col. pl. ; 23 cm.
- Full contents:
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- v. 1. Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 2. Striges, or nocturnal birds of prey, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 3. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Coliomorphoe, containing the families Corridoe, Paradiseidoe, Oriolidoe, Dicruridoe, and Prionopidoe, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 4. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Cichlomorphoe: pt. I, containing the families Campophagidoe and Muscicapidoe, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 5. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Cichlomorphoe: pt. II, containing the family Turdidoe (warblers and thrushes) by H. Seebohm.
- v. 6-7. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Cichlomorphoe: pt. III-IV, containing the ... family Timeliidoe (babbling-thrushes) by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 8. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Cichlomorphoe: pt. V, containing the families Paridoe and Laniidoe (titmice and shrikes) and Certhiomorphoe (creepers and nuthatches) by H. Godaw.
- v. 9. Passeriformes, or perching birds.
- Cinnyrimorphoe: containing the families Nectariniidoe and Meliphagidoe (sun-birds and honey-eaters) by H. Gadow.
- v. 10. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. I, containing the families Dicioeidoe, Hirundinidoe, Ampelidoe, Mniotiltidoe and Motacillidoe by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 11. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. II, containing the families Coerebidoe, Tanagridoe, and Icteridoe, by P.L. Sclater.
- v. 12. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Fringilliformes: pt. III, containing the family Fringillidoe, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 13. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Sturniformes, containing the families Artamidoe, Sturnidoe, Ploceidoe, Alaudidoe. Also the families Atrichiidoe and Menuridoe, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 14. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Oligomyodoe, or the families Tyrannidoe, Oxyrhamphidoe, Pipridoe, Cotingidoe, Phytotomidoe, Philepittidoe, Pittidoe Xenicidoe and Euryloemidoe, by P.L. Sclater.
- v. 15. Passeriformes, or perching birds. Tracheophonoe, or the families Dendrocolaptidoe, Formicariidoe, Conopophagidoe, and Pteroptochidoe, by P.L. Sclater.
- v. 16. Picarioe, Upupoe and Trochili, by O. Salvin. Coracioe, of the families Cypselidoe, Caprimulgidoe, Podargidoe, and Steatornithidoe, by E. Hartert.
- v. 17. Picarioe, Coracioe (contin.) and Halcyones, with the families Leptosomatidoe, Coraciidoe, Meropidoe,Alcedinidoe, Momotidoe, Todidoe, and Coliidoe, by R.B. Sharpe. Bucerotes and Trogones, by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant.
- v. 18. Picarioe, Scansores, containing the family Picidoe, by E. Hargitt.
- v. 19. Picarioe. Scansores and Cocyges, containing the families Rhamphastidoe, Galbulidoe, and Bucconidoe, by P.L. Sclater, and the families Indicatoridoe, Capitonidoe, Cuculidoe, and Musophagidoe, by G.E. Shelley.
- v. 20. Psittaci, or parrots, by T. Salvadori.
- v. 21. Columboe, or pigeons, by T. Salvadori.
- v. 22. Game birds (Pterocletes, Gallinoe, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant.
- v. 23. Fulicarioe, (Rallidoe and Heliornithidoe) and Alectorides (Aramidoe, Eurypygidoe, Mesitidoe, Rhinochetidoe, Gruidoe, Psophiidoe, and Otididoe) by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 24. Limicoloe, by R.B. Sharpe.
- v. 25. Gavioe and Tubinares. Gavi ̆(terns, gulls, and skuas) by H. Saunders. Tubinares (petrels and albatrosses) by O. Salvin.
- v. 26. Plataleoe (ibises and spoonbills) and Herodiones (herons and storks) by R.B. Sharpe.
- Steganopodes (cormorants, gannets, frigate-birds, tropic-birds, and pelicans) Pygopodes (divers and grebes) Alcoe (auks) and Impennes (penguins) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant.
- v. 27. Chenomorphoe (Palamedeoe, Phoenicopteri, Anseres), Crypturi, and Ratitoe, by T. Salvadori.
- Notes:
- YY copy is vol. 19: Catalogue of the picariæ in the collection of the British Museum.
- Subject:
- Birds
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, 1847-1909
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1909
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1898
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