Outlines of American ornithology
Subtitle: part 1, Land birds
By: S.F. Baird and R. Ridgway
Contributors: Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Birds; Ornithology
Other titles: Land birds
Notes: Cover title.

Preface dated January 8, 1874. Stamped on leaf [1]: Mar 27 1872.

Proof sheets. A laid-in citation, source unknown, states "... the work was never published, and the electrotype plates were destroyed."

Verso of each leaf blank, thick black rules at edges.

Includes indexes.

Consists of analytical and diagnostic tables of History of North American birds by Baird, T.M. Brewer, and Ridgway.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088015712193) stamped on cover wrapper: Smithsonian Institution National Museum May 28 1919 [ms. acc. no.] 246137.

SCNHRB copy has leaf 66 bound following no. 87.

SCNHRB copy includes ms. corrections in ink.

SCNHRB copy bound in navy buckram; title in gilt on spine, stamped at foot: unpublished.