The birds of North America
Subtitle: one hundred and nineteen artistic colored plates representing the different species and varieties, drawn and colored from nature. Including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology. Prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure. Arranged according to the classification adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union
By: Jacob H. Studer, editor and proprietor
Contributors: Jasper, Theodore, ill; Bell, John Graham; Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945; Natural Science Association of America (New York, N.Y.); E.G. Williams & Bro; Bailer Bros. (Firm)
Publisher: Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America
Published: 1895
Place of publication: New York, U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Copyright date: 1888
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works
Other titles: Birds of North America
Notes: Corresponds to [v. 1] of original ed., [1874]-1878: Studer's popular ornithology.

"The original drawings for the work were made from nature, by Theodore Jasper ... Revised by John Graham Bell ... The systematic table ... was prepared by Frank M. Chapman."--Announcement.

The front. port. is signed: Eng. by E.G. Williams & Bro., N.Y.

Title page printed in red and black.

Text in double columns.

Includes index.

Publisher's advertisement on p. [2] of the 4th group.

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 473

CHMRB copy 39088010380509 has tear in lower third of plate LXXI.

CHMRB copy has accession no. 13153.

CHMRB copy has later blue buckram binding with gilt-tooled spine; binding is signed: Bound by Bailer Bros. N.Y.