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OFFPRINTS ON AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, WITH 22 PLATES
[BIRDS - AMERICA]. [A Collection of 24 Offprints of Ornithological Articles covering Birds of North and South America].
Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ottawa, Ontario; Paris; etc., 1880-1924. 8vo. With 22 plates (including 2 hand-coloured lithographs, 2 colour half-tones, 1 map printed in colour and 16 black & white half-tones) and 26 illustrations in the text. From the collection of René Ronsil. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, marbled sides.
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An extensive collection of offprints of articles about (North and South) American birds, from a wide variety of (mostly United States) journals from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many include title-pages and most include wrappers with the title on the front. In one case, the author added illustrations that had been (to his annoyance) omitted from the article as published in the journal. Several of the journals are now very hard to come by. There is a manuscript contents list at the end. The volume contains the following 24 items:
1) STEJNEGER, Leonhard, “Birds of Kauai Island, Hawakan Archipelago, collected by Mr. Valdemar Knudsen, with descriptions of new species,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. X (1887), pp. 75-102. With 1 plate of line illustrations.
2) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., “A Revision of the Wrens of the Genus Thryomanes Sclater,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. XXI (1898), title + pp. 421-450.
3) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., “Notes on some Birds from Santa Barbara Islands, California,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. XXII (1900), title + pp. 229-234.
4) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., “Some New South American Birds,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. XXV (1902), title + pp. 59-68.
5) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., “List of Birds Collected by William T. Foster in Paraguay,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. XXV (1902), title + pp. 127-147.
6) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., “Description of a New Telmatodytes,” from: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , vol. XVI (1903), pp. 149-150.
7) ALLEN, Joel Asaph, “The Bæolophus Bicolor-Atricristatus Group,” from: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History , vol. XXIII (1907), pp. 467-481.
8) MILLER, W. DeWitt, “A Review of the Manakins of the Genus Chiroxiphia,” from: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History , vol. XXIV (1908), pp. 331-343. With a map in the text and 1 colour half-tone plate.
9) SMITH, Frank, “Double-Crested Cormorants Breeding in Central Illinois,” from: The Auk , vol. XXVIII (1911), pp. 17-19. With 4 photographic half-tone illustrations on 2 plates, omitted from the journal but added to this offprint by the author.
10) LINCOLN, Frederick C., “Some Notes of the Birds of Rock Canyon, Arizona,” from: The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology , vol. XXIX (1917), pp. 65-73. With 6 photographic half-tone plates.
11) WILLIAMS, John, “Purple Martins at St. Marks, Florida,” from: The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology , vol. XXXI (1919), pp. 71-83.
12) WILLIAMS, John, “Notes on Birds of Wakulla County, Florida,” from: The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology , vol. XXXII (1920), pp. 5-12.
13) CAHN, Alvin R., “The Terns of Weepecket Islands, Massachusetts,” from: The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology , vol. XXVIII (1916), pp. 11-18. With 6 photographic half-tone illustrations on 3 plates.
14) CAHN, Alvin R., “Bird Notes from Itasca County, Minnesota,” from: The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology , vol. XXXII (1920), pp. 103-122. With 2 photographic half-tone illustrations on 1 plate.
15) GRINNELL, Joseph, “The Subspecies of Hesperiphona Vespertina ,” from: The Condor , vol. XIX (1917), pp. 17-22. With 1 line illustration in the text.
16) GRINNELL, Joseph, “The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee,” from University of California Publications in Zoology , vol. 17 (1918), pp. 505-515. With a map and 1 line illustration in the text.
17) HORSFALL, R. Bruce, “Remarkable Habits of the Sage Grouse as observed in southeastern Oregon in May, 1918,” from: Zoologica: scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society , vol. II (1920), title + pp. 243-250. With 1 colour half-tone plate and 7 line illustrations in the text.
18) MITCHELL, H. Hedley, “Catalogue of the Birds of Saskatchewan,” from: The Canadian Field-Naturalist , vol. XXXVIII (1924), pp. 101-119. With 1 map printed in colour on 1 plate and 6 photographic half-tone illustrations forming 4 plates printed on 2 leaves.
19) SCLATER, Philip Lutley, “Remarks on some Species of the Genus Tyrannus ,” from: Proceedings of the Zoological Society ?, (1880), pp. 28-30. With 1 hand-coloured lithographic plate and 3 line illustrations in the text.
20) JOUY, Pierre Louis, “Notes on Birds of Central Mexico, with descriptions of forms believed to be new,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. XVI (1894), pp. 771-791.
21) LUCAS, Frederic A., “Notes on the Anatomy and Affinities of the Cœrebidæ and other American Birds,” from: Proceedings of the United States National Museum , vol. XVII (1894), pp. 299-312. With 13 line illustrations in the text.
22) MENEGAUX, (Henri) Auguste and Carl-Eduard HELLMAYR, “Étude des Espèces Critiques et des Types du Groupe des Passereaux Trachéophones de l’Amérique Tropicale appartenant aux collections du muséum [III. Dendrocolaptidés.],” from: Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle d’Autun , vol. XIX (1906), 86 pp. incl. title (= pp. 43-126 in the Mémoires ).
23) MENEGAUX, (Henri) Auguste and Carl-Eduard HELLMAYR, “Étude des Espèces Critiques et des Types du Groupe des Passereaux Trachéophones de l’Amérique Tropicale appartenant aux collections du muséum [IV. Formicariidés.],” from: Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris , (1906), pp. 23-58 incl. title.
24) HELLMAYR, Carl-Eduard, “Remarks on Some Recently Described Species of Calospiza ,” from: The Ibis , (1910), pp. 327-331. With1 hand-coloured lithographic plate.
In very good condition, with the edges of a few offprints slightly tattered. A collection of offprints on American ornithology that would now be almost impossible to assemble.
