Ornithology
By: Saunders
Contributors: Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron, 1833-1896, former owner; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner; Zoological Society of London
Publisher: Zoological Society of London
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Birds; Ornithology
Other titles: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.; Annals and magazine of natural history.
Description: A collection of articles by the author which appeared in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and Annals and magazine of natural history.
Notes: Caption titles.

One of the plates is hand-colored.

Includes bibliographical references.

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SCNHRB copy (39088015707342) has author's presentation inscriptions to The Lord Lilford with most of the articles.

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Alexander Wetmore. Inscribed in ink on t.p.: A. Wetmore.

SCNHRB copy bound in purple pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine, gilt crown with 'L' at foot of spine.
Table of contents: title: On a new species of green woodpecker from southern Europe (1872); title: On the occurrence of Falco barbarus and Cypselus pallidus on the continent of Europe (1872); title: On the introduction of Anser albatus of Cassin into the British avifauna (1872); title: Remarks on the grey-capped gulls and on the species with which they have been confounded (1874); title: On sexual variations in the nestling-plumage of the booted eagle (Nisaëtus pennatus) (1874); title: On the Stercorariinae or Skua gulls (1876); title: On the Sterninae, or terns with descriptions of three new species (1876); title: On the Larinae or gulls (1878).