1872 COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
Key to North American birds containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary.
Coues continued to revise and expand this work, putting it through four editions during his lifetime. Digital facsimile of the 1872 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. The Hathi Trust also makes available digit…
GMN 11790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13992
1873 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835 – 1915); WOLF, Joseph (1820 – 1899); SMIT, Joseph (1836 – 1929)
A monograph of the Paradiseidae or birds of paradise.
This work contains 36 plates by lithographed Joseph Smit from drawings by Joseph Wolf, and handcolored by J.D. White. Wolf was regarded as the greatest bird artist of his time. Among the birds of paradise there are so…
GMN 12879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15126
1874 COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.
This work incorporated Coues' A check list of North American birds (1873). Coues had the check list portion of this work printed with the versos blank so that users could enter in their own information. Digital facsim…
GMN 11789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13991
1877 DAVID, Jean Pierre Armand (1826 – 1900); OUSTALET, Jean Frédéric Émile (1844 – 1905)
Les oiseaux de la Chine. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15195
1878 –1880 COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
American ornithological bibliography. 4 parts. (Also called "Ornithological bibliography").
This is an exhaustive work up to time of publications, including scientific references to American birds in publications, the titles of which do not indicate any ornithological material. [Pt. 1.] Geological and Geogra…
GMN 11788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13990
1879 –1891 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899); SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 3 vols.: Part 1. Man: Homo sapiens.... Part II: Class Mammalia, other than man... Part III: Class Aves.
Parts 1 and 2 by Flower; part 3 by Sharpe. Digital facsimile of Part 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link, of Part 2 at this link, and Part 3 at this link.
GMN 7591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9763
1881 GOULD, John (1804 – 1881)
Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
GMN 13425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15697
1886 RIDGWAY, Robert (1850 – 1929)
A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.
Ridgway proposed a simple classification system, doing away with many subjective and evocative names that were currently popular. The work illustrated 186 colors. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Libra…
GMN 9566 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11752
1887 –1890 MURRAY, James A.
The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15304
1888 FÜRBRINGER, Max Carl Anton (1846 – 1920)
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungsorgane. 2 vols.
Fürbringer specialized in avian morphology and classification; he undertook the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study of skeletal, morphological and anatomical characteristics. …
GMN 9328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11510
1893 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); SABACHNIKOFF, Theodore (Fyodor Vasilyevich Sabašnikov) (1869 – 1927); PIUMATI, Giovanni (1850 – 1915); RAVAISSON-MOLLIEN, Charles Lacher (1849 – 1919)
Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.
The scientific study of the mechanics of flight begins with Leonardo’s investigations on birds, undertaken during his attempts to build a flying machine. At the time of publication Sabachnikoff owned the manuscript. A…
GMN 93 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/53
1897 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851); COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899); AUDUBON, Maria Rebecca (1843 – 1925)
Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
A biographical study by his grand-daughter, based on previously unpublished letters and journals of John James Audubon. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15046
1903 TURNER, William (1508 – 1568); EVANS, Arthur Humble (1855 – 1943)
Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11279
1918 –1922 BEEBE, Charles William (1877 – 1962); GRØNVOLD, Henrik (1858 – 1940); KNIGHT, Charles Robert (1874 – 1953); LODGE, George Edward (1860 – 1954); THORBURN, Archibald (1860 – 1935)
A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Grön…
GMN 12228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14440
1919 –1968 BENT, Arthur Cleveland (1866 – 1954)
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
GMN 12828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15074
1938 ANKER, Jean (1892 – 1957)
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
GMN 11771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13972
1942 HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.
GMN 9217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11399
1943 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194 – 1250); FYFE, F. Marjorie
The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…
GMN 9352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11534
1948 –1949 RONSIL, René (1908 – 1956)
Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.
GMN 11770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13971
1951 STRESEMANN, Erwin (1889 – 1972)
Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart.
Revised English translation by H. and C. Epstein, ed. by G. Cottrell, as Ornithology from Aristotle to the present, with a foreword and an epilogue on American ornithology by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ…
GMN 356.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/297
1966 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Reproduced in color from the collection at The New York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. 2 vols.
First printed edition of the "virtually complete" series of original water-color paintings for Audubon's The Birds of America, preserved in The New York Historical Society.
GMN 12801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15047
1982 FARBER, Paul Lawrence (1944 – )
The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
GMN 11769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13970
1982 GOULD, John (1804 – 1881); SAUER, Gordon Chenoweth (1921 – 2003)
John Gould, the bird man. A chronology and bibliography by Gordon C. Sauer.
GMN 13179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15440
1986 GENTLING, Scott (1942 – 2011); GENTLING, Stuart (1942 – 2006)
Of birds and Texas.
Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…
GMN 13784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16071
1992 FOUILLOY, Hugues de (Hugo de Folieto) (1100 – 1172); CLARK, Willene B. (1932 – )
The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.
GMN 7410 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9582
1996 FEDUCCIA, Alan (1943 – )
The origin and evolution of birds.
On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…
GMN 9327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11509
1996 WARR, Frances E.
Manuscripts and drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications No. 2.
The Natural History Museum at Tring, located in the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park, was originally the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild. The building was constructed in…
GMN 13550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15827
2002 ROBIN, Libby
The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.
GMN 12661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14905
2004 SCHLENKER, Rolf (1954 – )
Bibliographie der deutschen vogelkundlichen Literatur von 1480 bis 1850.
GMN 11776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13977
2006 GRANT, Peter Raymond (1936 – ); GRANT, Barbara Rosemary (1936 – )
Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches.
Through their more than 40 year study of Darwin's finches on the Island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, the Grants demonstrated how natural selection can drive rapid changes in body and beak size in response to chan…
GMN 14066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16377
2011 TAYLOR, Walter Thomas (1951 – )
Aves: A survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.
Written and beautifully designed and produced by Tom Taylor in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes many fine color plates.
GMN 10126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12315
2012 ARNOTT, William Geoffrey (1930 – 2010)
Birds in the ancient world.
GMN 8964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11143
2015 GRANT, Peter Raymond (1936 – ); GRANT, Barbara Rosemary (1936 – ); LAMICHHANEY, Sangeet; BERGLUND, Jonas; ET AL
Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing.
The authors sequenced the genome of 120 individuals representing all of Darwin’s finches. They found that a 240 kilobase haplotype encompassing the ALX1 gene, which encodes a transcription factor affecting craniofacia…
GMN 14067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16378
2016 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); FRITH, Clifford Brodie (1949 – )
Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.
GMN 10423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12616
2018 LEWIS, Daniel
Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.
GMN 10425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12618
