Indian Sporting Birds
Author : Frank Finn
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Game and game-birds
ISBN :
Author : Frank Finn
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Game and game-birds
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Author : Thomas Claverhill Jerdon
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Anseriformes
ISBN :
Author : T. C. Jerdon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752592893
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Being descriptions of all the species of game birds, snipe, and duck found in India.
Author : Eugene William Oates
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Dewar
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : Frank Finn
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Game and game-birds
ISBN :
Author : Allan Octavian Hume
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Game and game-birds
ISBN :
Author : E. C. Stuart Baker
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release :
Category :
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Author : Bo Beolens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 147298269X
Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. These entries vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs, depending on the availability of information or the importance of the individual's legacy. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research. Ornithologists will find this an invaluable reference, especially to sort out birds named after people with identical surnames or in situations where only a person's forenames are used. But all birders will find much of interest in this fascinating volume, a book to dip into time and time again whenever their curiosity is aroused.
Author : Edward Charles Stuart Baker
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Birds
ISBN :