A synopsis of the birds of North America
By: by John James Audubon
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Publisher: A. and C. Black; Longman, Rees, Brown, Green, and Longman
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Birds -- North America; Birds -- Classification
Notes: First edition. Herrick, II, 404

"The figures and descriptions contained in the work entitled 'The birds of America', and 'Ornithological biography ...' having been issued in the miscellaneous manner which was thought best adapted to the occasion ... seemed to require a systematic index, in which the nomenclature should be corrected, and the species arranged agreeably to my present views. This Synopsis, then, will afford a methodical catalogue of all the species ... described ... in the works above named."--Pref

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