Title: The Birds of America
First published: January 1947
Description: The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio differs in a number of ways -- besides its dimensions -- from earlier editions of The Birds of America and from John James Audubon's original, massive Double-Elephant Folio, the heaviest volume of which weighs 56 pounds. These plates are organized not in the order that Audubon produced them for his subscribers but phylogenetically; that is, in a modern scientific classification sequence that somewhat parallels the evolutionary history of a genetically related group of organisms -- from the most primitive living examples to the most recently evolved -- in this case going from loons to sparrows and buntings. The numbering of our plates follows the taxonomical sequence of orders, families, and species in the Check-List of North American Birds prepared by the American Ornithologists' Union, as adapted and up-dated by the American Birding Association.


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Also available in volumes 1-8:

 1. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168091W
 2. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168100W
 3. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168088W
 4. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168109W
 5. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168104W
 6. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168093W
 7. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168096W
 8. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24168113W
Subjects: American Watercolor painting, Birds in art, Classification, Miniature books, Ornithologists, Specimens, Artists, Ornithological illustration, Geographical distribution, Juvenile literature, Birds, Biography, Pictorial works, Sale Adult - Art & Art Instruction, Nature/Ecology, Techniques - Painting - Specific Subjects, Individual Artist, Art / General, Sale Books, North America, Birds, including cage birds, Drawing & drawings, Birds & Birdwatching, General, Art & Art Instruction, Art, Techniques - Printmaking, Oiseaux, Ouvrages illustrés, Birds, north america, Birds, pictorial works, Birds, united states, Ornithology, Artists, biography, Artists, united states, Miniature books, specimens
Places: North America, United States
People: John James Audubon (1785-1851)
Time periods: 1800s