The birds of North America
Subtitle: the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
By: By Spencer F. Baird ... with the cooperation of John Cassin ... and George N. Lawrence ... With an atlas of one hundred plates ...
Contributors: Cassin, John, 1813-1869.; Lawrence, George Newbold, 1806-1895.
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1005
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution; Birds -- North America
Notes: "The present work is, in part, a reprint of the General report on North American birds presented to the Department of War, and published in October, 1858, as one of the series of 'Reports of explorations and surveys of a railroad route to the Pacific ocean.' In this volume, however, will be found many important additions and collections."

"List of authorities": p. [929]-954.

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