Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Picariae Coraciae Contin And Halcyones With The Families Leptosomatidae Coraciidae Meropidae Alcedinidae Momotidae Todidae And Coliidae By Rb Sharpe Bucerotes And Trogones By Wr Ogilvie Grant 1892

Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Picariæ. Coraciæ (contin.) and Halcyones, with the families Leptosomatidæ, Coraciidæ, Meropidæ, Alcedinidæ, Momotidæ, Todidæ, and Coliidæ, by R.B. Sharpe. Bucerotes and Trogones, by W.R. Ogilvie Grant. 1892 written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.