Catalogue of the Psittaci Or Parrots in the Collections of the British Museum
Author : Tommaso Salvadori
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Page : 658 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : Tommaso Salvadori
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Page : 658 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : Tommaso Salvadori
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Page : 657 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Page : 659 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Parrots
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Author : T. Salvadori
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Page : 736 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780666157867
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots: In the Collection of the British Museum It is well known to Ornithologists that the Classification of Parrots has been a very difficult problem; and I am sorry to say that I cannot offer results which will settle the question. Those at which Mr. Garrod arrived are far from being satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Tommaso Salvadori
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Page : 659 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Birds
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Birds
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Birds
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This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Museum added eagerly to their already vast collections during the decades of publication, acquiring by gift the great collections of A.O. Hume on Asian birds, and those of Sclater and Salvin and Godwin on Neotropical birds, so that the size of the collection nearly tripled between 1874 and 1888. Sharpe originally intended to do all the work himself, but others were called in when this became clearly impossible. The plates are all of birds not previously illustrated. In the decades following its publication this catalogue was universally acclaimed as the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published. (Zimmer, p. 96). And even after one hundred years it remains an essential reference for the serious ornithologist, as it underpins a great deal of modern bird classification. With 387 plates, most hand-coloured lithographs, some chromolithographs, by William Hart, J.G. Keulemans, Joseph and Peter Smit.
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Birds
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1898
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